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THE PRESS, OcToBER 2, 1858.

number of the boats not to be limited, and no monopoly
allowed. Jf any smuggling takes place, the offender to be
punished according to law.
Art. \V.—MI questions in regard to rights of property
or person between British subjects to be subject to the
jurisdiction of the British authorities.
Art. XVl.—Chinese subjects guilty of any criminal act
towards British subjects to be arrested, and punished by
the Chinese authorities according to the law of China;
British subjects committing any crime in China to be tried
and punished by the Consul or other public functionary
according to the laws of Great Britain.
Art. XVlL—Determities the mode of procedure in the
matter of complaints on the side either of British or
Chinese subjects.
Art. XVlll.—Provides for the protection of the persons
and property of British subjects.
Art. XIX.—If any British merchant vessel in Chinese
waters is plundered by robbers or pirates, the Chinese
authorities are to use every endeavour to capture sod
punish the offenders and to recover the stolen property.
Art. XX.—Wrecked or stranded vessels, or vessels under
stress of weather, are to be afforded relief and security in
any Chinese port, and the crews are to be furnished by the
Chinese, if necessary, with the means of conveyance to
the nearest consular station. _

Art. XXl.—Chinese criminals taking refuge in Ho ig Kong
or on board of British ships shall, upon the requisition of
the Chinese authorities, be given up; the same also if
taking refuge in the houses or on board the vessels of
British subjects at the open ports.
Art. XXII.—The Chinese authorities to do their utmost
to arrest Chinese subjects failing to discharge their debts to
British subjects, or fraudulently absconding, and to enforce
recovery of the debts. The British authorities to do like-
wise as regards British subjects indebted to Chinese.
Art. X_Xlll.—Debts incurred by Chinese at Hang Kong
must be recovered in the courts of justice on the spot. If
the debtor should abscond, and should possess real or per-
sonal property in the Chinese territory, the Chinese
authorities, in concert with the British Consul, are to see
justice done between the parties.
Art. XXI V.—British subjects shall pay on all merclian-
diz- imported or exported the duties prescribed by the
tariff, but in no case shall they pay other or higher duties
than the sithjezts of other foreign nations pay.
Art. XXV.—lmport duties to be considered payable on
the landing of the goods, and duties of export on the ship-
ment If the same.

krt. XXVI.—The tariff fixed by Article X. of the
Treaty of Nankin to be revised by a commission of British
and Chinese officers, to meet at Shanghai, so that the re-
vised tariff may come into operation immediately after the
ratification of the treaty.
Art. XXVI I.—Either contracting part• may demand a
further revision of the tariff and of the commercial articles
of the treaty at the end of ten yearn ; but six months'
notice mast be given, or the tariff is to remain in force for
ten years more, and so at the end of each successive ten
years.
Art. XXVII f.—lt is agreed that, within four months of
the signature of the treaty, the Chinese Collector of Duties
at ports already opened and hereafter to he opened to
British trade shall be obliged,'on application of the Consul,
to declare the amount of duties leviable on produce between
the place of production and the port of shipment, and upon
imports between the consular port in question and the
inland markets name] by the Consul ; and a notification
thereof shall be published in English and Chinese. British
subjects may, b-iwever, clear their goods of all transit
ditties by payment of a single charge ; the amount of the
charge to be calculated as near as possible at the rate of
two and a half per cent. ad rafters& duty, and it is to be
fixed for each article at the conference to he held at
Shanghai.
The payment of transit dues by commutation is in no
way to affect the tariff duties on imports or exports, which
will continue to be levied separately end in full.

Art. XXlN—Regulates the amount of tonnage dues.
British merchant vessels of more than 140 tons tourthen
to pay at the rate of four mace per ton; if of 1511 tons and
under, at the rate of one mace per ton.
Vessels engaged in the coasting trade, or clearing for
Hong Kong from any of the open ports, shall be entitled
to a special certificate, exempting them Worn all further
payment of tonnage dues in any open port of China for a
period of four mouths from the date of her port clearance.
Art. XXX.—The master of any British tnereltant vessel
may, within f3rty-eight hours after his snivel but not
later, depart without breaking bulk ; iu which case he will
not be subject to pay tonnage dues. No other fees or
charges upon entry or departure shall be levied.
Art. XXXL—No tonnage dues to be paid on passenger
boats, or boats conveying baggage, letters, articles of pro-
vision, or other articles not subject to duty. All cargo
boats, however, conveying merchandize subject to duty
shall pay tonnage dues once in six months, at the rate of
four mace per register ton.
Art. XXXll.—The Consuls and Superintendents o
Customs to consult together respecting the erection of
buoys and lightships as occasion may demand.
Art. XXXlll.—Duties to be paid to the anthorized
Chinese bankers, ether in Syce or in foreign money, ac-
cording to the assay made at Canton, July 13, 1843.
Art XXXIV.—Seta of standard weights and measures
to be delivered by the Superintendent of Customs to the
consul at each port, to secure uniformity.
Art. XXXV.—British merchant vessels to be at liberty
to engage pilots to take them into any of the open ports,
and to convey them out after they have discharged all
legal dues and duties.
Art. XXXVI.—The Superintendent of Customs shall
depute one or more Customs' officers to guard a British
merchant ship on arriving off one of the open ports. They
shall stay either in a boat of their own or on boat 1 ship ;
their food and expenses shall be suppliei from the Custom-
house, and they shall be entitled to no fees from the
muter or consignee.

Art. XXXVll.—Ships' papers, bills of lading, &c., to be
lodged in the hands of the Consul twentrfour hours after
arrival, and full particulars of the vessel to be reported to
the Superintendent of Customs within a further period of
twentrfour hours. Omission to comply with this rule
within fortyeight hours punishable by a fine of fitly tsels
for each day's delay. The total amount of penalty not to
exceed 200 taels. The master responsible for the cor-
rectness of the manifest—a false manifest subjects the
master to a fine of 500 taels—but he will be allowed to
correct any mistake within twentrfour hour.; without in.
curring a penalty.
Art. XXXVI the master shall begin to discharge
any goods without the permit from the Superintendent
of Customs, he shall be fined 500 taels, and the goods dis-
charged shall be coufi-cated wholly.
Art. XXX IX.—llritish merchants must apply to the
Superintendent of Customs for a special permit to land or
ship cargo. Cargo landed or shipped without such permit
will be liable to confiscation.

Art. XL—No transhipment fain one vessel to
another can be made without epectal permission, under
pain of confiscation of the goods transhipped.
Art. XLl.—The Superintendent of Customs shall give
a port clearance when all dues and duties have been paid,
and the Consul shall then return the ship's papers.
Art. XLII.—If the British merchant cannot agree with
the Chinese officer in fixing a value on goods subject to
an ad valorem duty, each patty shall call in two or three
merchants, and the highest price at which any of the
merchants would purchase them shall be assumed to be
the value of the goods.

Art. XLI I I.—Provides that duties shall be charged upon
the net weight of each article, making a deduction for
the tare weight of coogee, six., and regulates the manner
in which the tare on any article such as tea shall be
tiled. The British merchant may appeal to his Consul
within twenty-four hours.
Art. XLIV.—Upon all damaged goods a fair reduction
of duty shall be allowed, proportionate to their deteriora-
tion. If any disputes arise, they shall be settled in the
manner pointed out in the clause of this treaty having
reference to articles which pay duty ad valorem.
Art. XLV.—British merchants who have imported
merchandize into an open port and paid duty Ditty re-
import their goods under certain regulations, without
payment of any additional duty.
British merchants desiring to re-export duty-pai.l im-
ports to a foreign country to be entitled, under similar
regulations, to a drawback certificate, which is to be
valid tender in payment of Customs' duties.
Foreign grain brought into a Chinese port in a British
ship, if no part has been landed, may be exported without
hindrance.

Art. XLVL—The Chinese authorities at the ports to
adopt the means they may judge most proper to prevent
the revenue suffering from fraud or smuggling.
Art. XLVlL—Britiell merchant vessels not to resort to
other than the ports declared open; not wilds/fully to
enter ports, or to carry on clandestine trade along the
coasts. Vessels viohuing, this provision to be, with their
cargoes, subject to coutiscottou by the Chinese Govern-
ment.
Art. X LVIIL—If a British merchant vessel be concerned
in smuggling, the goods to be subject to confiscation by
the Chinese authorities, and the ship may be prohibited
from trading further, and sent away as soon as her accounts
shall have been adjusted.
Art. X I.IX.—A II penalties or confiscations under the
treaty to belong and he appropriated to the public service
of the Chinese Government
Art. L.—All official communications addressed by
British Diplomatic or Consular agents to the Chinese
authorities are henceforth to be written in English. For
the present, they will be accompanied by a Chinese version,
but it is understood that in case of there being any diffe-
rence of meaning between the English and Chinese text,
the English Government will hold the sense expressed in
the English text to be the correct sense. This provision
is to apply to the present treaty, the Chinese text of which
has been carefully corrected by the English original.
Art. I.l.—The character " I " (" barbarian ") not to be
applied to the British Government, or to British subjects,
in any Chinese official document issued by the Chinese
authorities.
Art. Ml.—British ships of war coming for no hostile
purpose, or being engaged in the pursuit of pirates, to be
at liberty to visit all the Chinese ports, and to receive
every facility for procuring necessaries, or, if required, for
making repairs. The commanders of such ships to bold
intercourse with the Chinese authorities ou terms of
equality and courtesy.
Art. Llll.—The contracting parties agree to concert
measures for the suppression of piracy.
Art. LlV.—Confirms all advantages secured to the
British Government by previous treaties, end stipulates
that the British Government shall participate in soy
advantages which may be granted by the Emperor of China
to any other nation.
Art. LV.—The conditions affecting indemnity for
expenses incurred, and loss sustained, in the matter of the
Canton question, to be included in a separate article, which
shall be in every respect of equal validity with ether
articles of the treaty.
Art. LVl.—Ratifications to be exchanged within a year
alter the day of signature.
Separate article provides that a sum of 2,000,000 taels,
on account of the losses sustained by
British subjects
through the misconduct of Chinese authorities at Canton,
and a further sum of 2,000,000 taels on account of the
expenses of the war, shall be paid to the British Rept:wit-
taiive in China by the authorities of the Kwang rung
province.
The arrangements for effecting these payments to he
determined by the British Representative in concert with
the Chinese authorites at Kwang Tung.
The British fames are not to be withdrawn from Canton
until the abssimMeetints are discharged in full.