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GREAT BRITAIN,

The area leased to Great Britain as shown TRI

the ayeved map includes the waters of Mirs Bay and

Deep Bay, but it is agreed that Chinese vessels of war,

whether inqgral or otherwise, shall retain the right

to use those waters.

This Convention shall come into force on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being the Thirteenth day of the fifth moon of the twenty- fourth year of Kuang 1st, It shall'1⁄4e ratified by the Sovereigns of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as sordi) as

as possible.

In witness whereof the undersigned, duly author-

ized thereto by their respective Goverments, have signed the present. Agreement.

Done at Peking in quadruplente (four tropies in English and Göhte in Chinese) the ninth day of dune in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, being the twenty-first day of the fourtia moon of the twenty-fourth year of Ktan). Hsü,

(Signed)

英滆

閻光

光緒二十

四分英文門分北

太子太

批准文據應在英國

押握目

HJ

百四分照

年共信

行

盡光

六月初九日

们

= 1

七们

國此行

城

一燒開辦施行其

裹

可用此約應於出揮後向

:

CLAUDE M. MACDONALD,

1.S.

LI HUNG-CHANG.

ISË TING-KUEL

1. S.

水春

該地

迹

五船园

係

十論地