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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. SUPPLEMENT To No. 124.

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EDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH, 1844.

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SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY.

OFFICIAL TRANSLATION.

ARTICLE I-Provides for the New Tariff being in force at the five Ports of Canton, Fuchow-foo, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai.

ARTICLE II —Provides for the General Regulations of Trade being in force the aforesaid five Ports,

ARTICLE HI-Provides that all penalties or confiscations, inade under the IIIrd clause of the said General Regulations of Trade, shall belong to tho Government of China,

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ARTICLE IV. Provides that British Merchants shall be allowed only to trade five Ports named in Article I, that the British Merchant Ships shall the fi not repair to any other Ports or places in China that if they do so, in con travention of this Article, the Chinese Authorities shall be at liberty to seize and confiscate both Vessel and Cargo, and that all Chinese Subjects discovered clandestinely trading with British Merchants at any other Ports or Places in China shall be punished as the law in China may direct.

ARTICLE V-Provides for the IV clause of the General Regulations of Trade being applicable to both parties.

ARTICLE VL-Provides that English Merchants and others residing at, or resorting to, the five Ports shall not go into the surrounding Country, beyond certain distances (to be fixed by the local Authorities and Consuls) and "on no pretence for purposes of trathe and that if any person, whatever his rank, station or calling, disobey this Article and wander away into the country" he "shall be seized and handed over to the British Consul for auit. able punishment.”

ARTICLE VIL-Provides for British Subjects and their families residing, agreeably to the Treaty of perpetual Peace and Friendship, at the different Ports named in Article 1, and for their being allowed to buy or rent ground and Houses at fair and equitable rates, such as prevail amongst the people, without exaction on either and The Ground and houses, so to be sold "or rented, to be set apart by the local Authorities in Communication with "the Consuls.”

NON-OFFICIAL TRANSLATION.

The regulations for levying duties on imported and exported merchandize.. which have passed the official seal, shall henceforth be held to be a law in the five ports of Canton, Furban, Amoy, Ningpo and Shanghat :

11. The newly appointed commercial regulations which have been officially, promulged, shall henceforth be in forge at the aforesaid two ports.

II. The fines levied on merchant vessels, which have entered port, and which has been confiscated to government, according to the IIId article of the recont neglected to report themselves at the custom-house, together with the merobandike commercial treaty, both money and goods, shall all revert to the imperial transury. of Chinn for the public service._****

of Canton, Tuchau. A moy, Ningpo and Shanghai

11 Aoun na the five poris allowed for British merchants to trade at

hall have been opened, the only

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hall be the abovaname five ports, and they shall not be permitted to go ports: while the Chineso people shall not be permitted to connect themselves with them, and to radu clandestinely in other parts Furthermore, the publio envoy of the English nation has issued a proclamation cloorly forbidding the resort to other places, and should the merchants of the English nation either break this contract or disobey this regulation, affecting not to have heard of the proclamation of the public envoy, while they proceed to other ports, and wander about buying and waliing, it shall be lawful for the Chinese officers to confiscate both ship and cargo altoge- ther, and the English officers are, not to make any objection. Should Chiness mubjects proceed to other places and secretly connect themselves with the English merchants for the purpose of trade, they must be dealt with according to the laws, of the country already existing,

V. Since the conclusion of the treaty of Nanking, the

the government will certainly not be responsible for the debts of merchants and according to the IVth article of the recent commercial treaty, the transactions between English and

nd Chinese merchants are not to be conducted any more according to the old system of security hongs, when petitions were made for the payment of deble, as is on record, but henceforward, whether Chinose are indebted to English or English to Chinese, if the accounts be correct, the persons present, and the property in existence, then the an agredient,

parties must appear before the consuls, and in a public place make may pursue

when in accordance with the contrast entered into the different

Bach other; but there is to be no general secutity of the whole body for individuni merchants,

VI. At Canton and other of the five ports, the English merchants, whether constant residents or occasional visitors, must iot diabrderly go into the villages, and gratify their desires in wandering about; also they must not go far into the interior to trade; but the Chinese officers ought, in connection with the English Consule, and in accordance with the feelings of the people and the nature of tho country, to consult and fix a boundary, which must not be passed over, in order to maintain a constant good fooling and peaceful relations between the two nations. Whenever sailors and people from the vessels arrive, they must wait until the consuls and the native officers have first established the regulation, who they may be allowed to go on shore. But if Englishmen disobey these regulations, and disor- derly enter the inner territory to rumble about, no matter what class or description persons they may be, it will then be allowable for the people of the country to saigo them, and deliver thom over to the consuls of the English nation for purilety. mont as circumstances may require. But the people must not bent and wound them, lest they infringe upon the established harmony.

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VII. In the treaty of Nanking, it has been already stated that Englishmen may take their families and proceed to the five porta pl Canton, Tuchuu, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghát, to dwell, without being insulted or restricted but the Chines officers must in unison with the English consuls, and in conformity with the feelings of the people, consult as to what places, of what houses or biton of houses they may inake use of; which it shall be permitted to Englishmen to litre, the ront being according to the scale of prices current at the various ports for such purposes, in conformity with which bargains may be struck and contracts entered into; the Chinose on the one hand not practicing extortion, and the English on the other not violently insisting on the hiring of particular spots. The consuls of the English nation shall annually make a report of the number of houses which the English

wave either built or hired, to the native officers, who shall in their turn report it to

ARTICLE VIII-Provides for all Foreign Countries, whose subjects or Citizens have hitherto traded at Canton, being admitted to the five Ports, named in Article I. on the same terms as England, A

the proper tribunal. But the number of houses will naturally depend on the num ber of merchants, and the number of merchant on the state of trade, so that it will be difficult to fix the amount beforehand.

VIII. Formerly the merchants of every foreign nation were permitted to trade at the single port of Canton only, but last year it was agreed at at Nanking, that if the emperor should ratify the treaty, the merchants of the various nations of Europe should be allowed to proceed to the four ports of Fuchau, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai, for the purposes of trade, to which the English were not to make any objection. But since every other nation has been put upon the same footing with the English, should the ainpuror in future manifest any new favor toward the various nations, then it should be allowable for the Englian to where in tho asm

ges neither the English not foreiz. And howover must maku

orderly soliciting further grado, in order to tho

any lawless.

ARTICLE IX.---Provides for all Chinese Chiming and Offender against

flee to Hongkong, or to

the Law who

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being "delivered

Sailor Sider or other

Authornies, and forthwith

or other British Government Officer

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