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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH DECEMBER, 1860. 277

Done at Tien-tsin, this twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight; corresponding with the Chinese date, the sixteenth day, fifth moon, of the eighth year of Hien Fung.

Signature

of First Chinese

Plenipotentiary.

(L. S.)

Seal

of the Chinese

Plenipotentiaries.

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

Signature

of Second Chinese

Plenipotentiary.

Separate Article annexed to the Treaty concluded between Great Britain and China, on the twenty-sixth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

Ir is hereby agreed that a sum of two millions of taels, on account of the losses sustained by Brit- ish subjects through the misconduct of the Chinese authorities at Canton; and a further sum of two millions of taels on account of the military expenses of the expediton which Her Majesty the Queen has been compelled to send out for the purpose of obtaining redress, and of enforcing the due observ- ance of Treaty provisions; shall be paid to Her Majesty's Representative in China by the authorities of the Kwang Tung province.

The necessary arrangements with respect to the time and mode of effecting these payments shall be determined by Her Majesty's Representative, in concert with the Chinese authorities of Kwang Tung.

When the above amounts shall have been discharged in full, the British forces will be withdrawn from the city of Canton.

Done at Tien-tsin, this twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, corresponding with the Chinese date, the sixteenth day, fifth moon, of the eighth year of Hien Fung.

Signature

of First Chinese

Plenipotentiary.

(L. S.)

Seal

of the Chinese

Plenipotentiaries.

AGREEMENT

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

Signature

of Second Chinese

Plenipotentiary.

IN PURSUANCE OF ARTICLES 26 AND 28 OF THE TREATY OF TIEN-TSIN. SIGNED AT SHANGHAI, NOVEMBER 8TII, 1858.

WHEREAS it was provided, by the Treaty of Tien-tsin, that a conference should be held at Shanghai between Officers deputed by the British Government on the one part, and by the Chinese Government on the other part, for the purpose of determining the amount of tariff-duties and transit-dues to be henceforth levied, a conference has been held accordingly; and its proceedings having been submitted to the Right Honorable the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary of Her Majesty the Queen, on the one part; and to Kweiliang, Hwashana, Ho Kweitsing, Mingshen, and Twan Chingshih, High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor, on the other part, these High Officers have agreed and determined upon the revised Tariff hereto appended, the rate of transit-dues therewith declared, together with other Rules and Regulations for the better explanation of the Treaty aforesaid; and do hereby agree that the said Tariff and Rules-the latter being in ten Articles thereto appended-shall be equally binding on the Governments and subjects of both countries with the Treaty itself.

In Witness whereof, they hereto affix their Seals and Signatures.

Done at Shanghai, in the Province of Kiangsu, this eighth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, being the third day, of the tenth moon, of the eighth year of the reign of Hien Fung.

Seal of

Chinese

Plenipotentiaries,

(L. S.)

ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.

Signatures of the

Five Chinesc

Plenipotentiaries,