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chandise subject to duty, shall pay tonnage dues
once in six months, at the rate of four mace per
register ton.

Art. XXXII. The consuls and superintendents of
customs to consult together respecting the erection
of buoys and light ships, as occasion may demand.
Art. XXXIII. Duties to be paid to the autho-
rised Chinese bankers, either in syce or in foreign
money, according to the assay made at Canton,
July 13, 1843.

-Art. X XXIV. Sets of standard weights and
measures to be delivered by the superintendent of
customs to the consul at each port, to secure uni-
formity.
Art. X XXV. 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 mere customs officers
to guard
a British merchant ship on arriTing off one of the
open ports. They shall stay either in a boat of
their own or on board ship ; their food and expenses
shall be supplied from the Custom-house, and they
shall be entitled to no fees from the master or
consignee.

Art. X XXVII. Ships' papers, bills of lading,
&c., to be lodged in the hands of the consul 24
hours after arrival, and full particulars of the vessel
to be reported to the superintendent of customs
within a further period of 24 hours ; omission to
comply with this rule within 48 hours punishable
by a fine of 50 taels for each day's delay. The total
amount of penalty not to exceed 200 tacls. The
master responsible for the correctness of the mani-
fest ; and false manifest subjects the master to a
fine of 500 taels, but he will be allowed to correct
any mistake within 24 hours, without incurring
penalty.
Art. X XXVIII. If 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 discharged shall be confiscated
wholly.
Art. XXXIX. British 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 trans-shipment from one vessel to
another can be made without special permission,
under pain of confiscation of the goods trans-
shipped.
Art. XLI. The superintendent of customs shall
give a port cleariance 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 party shall
call in two or three merchants, and the highest
price at which any of the merchants would pur-
chase them shall be assumed to be the value of the
goods.
Art. XLIII. Provides that duties shall be charged
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pon the net weight of each article, making a re-
duction for the tare weight of congee, &c., and
regulates the manner in which the tare on anY
articles such as tea shall be fixed. The British
merchant may appeal to his consul within twenty-
four hours.

Art. XLIV. Upon all damaged goods a fair re-
duction of duty shall be allowed, proportionate to
their deterioration. 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 valorom.
Art. XLV. British merchants who have im-
ported merchandise into an open port and paid
duty,--may reimport their goods under certain re-
gulations, without payment of any additional duty.
British merchants desiring to re-export duty-Paid
imports to a foreign country to be entitled, under
similar regulations, to a drawback-certificate, which
is to be a 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
re-exported without hindrance.
Art. XLVI. 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. XLVII. British merchant vessels not to
resort to other than the ports declared open ; not
unlawfully to enter ports, or to carry on clandes-
tine trade along the coasts. Vessels violating this
provision to be, with their cargoes, subject to con-
fiscation by the Chinese Government.

Art. XLVIII. 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. XLIX. All penalties or confiscations under
the treaty to belong and be 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 Eng'
lish. For the present they will be accompanied
by a Chinese version, but it is understood that in
case of there being any difference of meaning be-
tween the English and Chinese text, the English
Government will hold the sense expressed in the
English text to be the correct sense. This provi-
sion is to apply to the present treaty, the Chinese
text of which has been carefully corrected by the
English original.
Art. LI. The character "I" (barbarian) not to
be applied to the British Government or to British
subjects in any Chinese official documents issued by
the Chinese authorities.
Art. LII. British ships of war coming for no hos-
tile purpose, or being engaged in the pursuit of
pirates, to be at liberty to visit all the Chinese
porn, and receive every facility for procuring ne-
cessaries, or, if required, for making repairs. The
commanders of such ships to hold intercourse with
the Chinese authorities on terms of equality and
courtesy.

Art. LIII. The contracting parties agree to con-
cert measures for the suppression of piracy.
Art. LIV. Confirms all advantages secured to
the British Government by previous treaties,
and
stipulates that the British Government shall parti-
cipate in any 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 the other articles of the treaty.

Art. LVI. Ratifications to be exchahged within
a year after the day of signature.
A separate article provides that a sum of two mil-
lions of taels, on account of the losses sustained by
British subjects through the misconduct of the Chi-
nese authorities at Canton ; and a further sum of
two millions of taels on account of the expenses of
the war, shall be paid to the British representative
in China by the authorities of the Kwang Tung
province.

The arrangements for effecting these payments to
be determined by the British representative in con-
cert with the Chinese authorities at Kwang Tung.
The British forces are not to be withdrawn from
Canton until the above amounts are discharged in
full.

A TRAIN ON FIRE.—On Saturday last about two
o'clock, the population of Splottland, a rapidly increasing
suburb of Cardiff, were thrown into a great state of excite-
ment, by seeing a luggage train on th South Wales Rail-
way approaching from Newport, in flames, which ascended
a considerable height. The train was brought to a stand
still between Splott and Adamstown ; all was done by the
people who were attracted to it that could be done, and the
tire was confined to one van only. From information we
have received,. it appears that this van was the last in the
train, and m it were confined some eight or ten
rams of a very valuable breed, worth ten or fifteen
pounds each. How the van caught fire has not been
satisfactorily ascertained, but • it is strongly suspected
that the man in charge had been smoking-, and that
ignition originated either through a spark from
the pipe or a lucifer match dropped on the floor of the van.
The poor animals were roasted alive I Their fat ran out of
the van blazing on the sleepers of the line, and it was only
through the activity of 'those who rendered assistance that
the sleepers were prevented from taking fire. As soon as
the burning carriage could be detached from the train it
was pushed slowly along by means of iron bars whilst it
was being extinguished, in order that the falling fire might
be put out as it fell on the sleepers, which was done by soil
being thrown upon it. The whole of the woodwork of the
van was consumed, and the iron work was so heated that it
could not be touched. The fat of the animals as it ran
upon the line quickly congealed in large cakes, and their
remains when pulled out of the burning van presented
horrible sight.—Carde Guardian,