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CONVENTION OF PEKING (1860).

ARTICLE VI.

With a view to the maintenance of law and order

in and about the harbour of Hongkong, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China agrees to cede to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and to Her Heirs and Successors, to have and to hold as a dependency of Her Britannic Majesty's Colony of Hongkong, that portion of the township of Cowloon,

in the province of Kwangtang, of which a lease was

granted in perpetuity to HARRY SMITH PARKES, Esquire,

Companion of the Bath, a Member of the Allied Commission at Canton, on behalf of Her Britaunic Majesty's Covernment, by. LAU TSUNG KWANG,

Kwa Governor General of the Two Kwang.

It is further declared that the lease in question is hereby cancolled, that the claims of any Chinese to property on the said portion of Cowloon shall be duly

investigated by a mixed Commission of British and Chinese Officers and that compensation shall be

awarded by the British Government to any Chinese

whose claim shall be by the said Commission estab-

lished, should his removal be deemed necessary by the British Government.

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第六款

第八款

第七款 除現定續約或更 一戊午年所定源治

總

正

將

東

東九龍司地方一區交與

促京互梅之!!

一戊午年原約

大清大皇帝定即將該地界付與 禮代國立批永刈在案茲 【珠紫粵省师-

機總局正便功賜三等寳星巴夏

大清大皇帝允於即

行毫無出入今續

換之後無不爋日

内以期該

爲始排行照辦國 約均源自畫押之目

此原約及續約

省督撫大吏將

日降齡京外各

無事

大英國無不公嘗賠动 勘查明果爲該戶業後備勢必令洲地 該地華民自稱業戶應由彼此兩國各派委員會

無批毋

行

無異一體遵守 御筆批准惟當視與原約

并令刊刻懸布

通衢戒使知悉

ARTICLE VII.

It is agreed that the provisions of the Treaty of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, except in so far as these are modified by the present Conven- tion, shall, without delay, come into operation as 300n as the Ratifications of the Trenty aforesaid shall have been exchanged. It is further agreed that no separate Ratification of the present Convention shall be neces- sary, but that it shall take effect from the date of its Signature, and he equally binding with the Treaty above mentioned on the High Contracting Powers.

ARTICLE VH.

It is agreed that, as soon as the Ratifications of the Treaty of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, shall have been ext hanged, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Chima shail, by decree, com- mand the high authorities in the Capital and in the provinces to print and publish the aforesaid Treaty and the present Convention for general information.

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