TREATY OF NANKING (1842).
ARTICLE IV.
The Emperor of China agrees to pay the sum of Six Millions of Dollars as the value of Opium which was delivered up at Cantou in the mouth of March 1839, as a Ransom for the lives of Her Britannic Majesty's Superintendent and Subjects, who had been imprisoned and threatened with death by the Chinese High Officers.
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償還 作爲商欠之數准明由中國官爲 措清還者今酌定洋銀三百萬員 設行商等內有累欠英商甚多無 與何商交易均聽其便且向例額
大皇帝准以嗣後不必仍照向乃凡 有英商等赴各該口貿易者勿論
君主准可按數扣除 大英全權公使大臣爲 因贜各娀收過銀雨之數
大皇帝准爲償補惟自道光二十 一年六月十五日以後英國
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ARTICLE V.
The Government of China having compelled the British Merchants trading at Canton to deal exclu- sively with certain Chinese Merchants called Hong Merchants (or Colong) who had been licensed by the Chinese Government for that purpose, the Emperor of China agrees to abolish that practice in future at all Ports where British Merchants may reside, and to permit them to carry on their mercantile transactions
with whatever persons they please, and His Imperial Majesty further agrees to pay to the British Govern- ment the sum of Three Millions of Dollars, on account of Debts due to British Subjects by some of the said Hong Merchants (or Cohong), who have become in- solvent, and who owe very large sums of money to
Subjects of Her Britannic Majesty.
ARTICLE VI.
The Government of Her Britannic Majesty having been obliged to send out an Expedition to demand and
obtain redress for the violent and unjust Proceedings
of the Chinese High Authorities towards Her Britaunic Majesty's Officer aud Subjects, the Emperor of China agrees to pay the sum of Twelve Millions of Dollars on account of the Expenses incurred, and Her Britannic Majesty's lenipotentiary voluntarily agrees, on be- half of Her Majesty, to deduct from the said amount of Twelve Millions of Dollars, any sums which may have been received by Her Majesty's combined Forces
as Ransom for Cities and Towns in China, subsequent to the 1st day of August 1841.
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