Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-12

CONVENTION
Betlgeen the United States and China for the
Regulation Of Trade.

Betlgeen the United States and China for the
Regulation Of Trade.
SHANGHAI, November g. 1858.
Whereas treaty of peace, amity, and COM
merce between the Ia Using empire and the
United States of America, was concluded at
Tientsin, and signed at the temple of Hal
Kwang on the eighteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ffty-eight, corresponding with the eighth
day of the fifth moon of the eighth year of
Hienfung which said treaty was duly ratified
by his majesty the emperor of China on the
third day of the July following, and which
has now been transmitted for ratification by
the president of the United States, with the
advice and consent of the senate and where
as in the said treaty it was provided, among
other things, that the tariff of duties to be
paid by citizens of the United States on the
export and import of goods from and into
China shall be the same as was agreed upon
at the treaty of Wang-hai, except so far as it
may be modified by treaties with other ma
tons, it being expressly agreed that citizens
of the United States shall never pay higher
duties than those paid by the most favored
nations and whereas, since the the signature
OF the said treaty material notifications OF
the said tariff, and other matters of detail
connected with and having relation to the said
treaty, have been made under mutual discus
sions, by commissioners appointed to that end
by the plenipotentiaries of China, Great Brit
ain, and France, to which the assent of the
United States of America is desired and now
freely given, it has been determined to record
such assent and agreement in the form of
supplementary treaty, to be as binding and of
the same efficacy as though they had been in-
serted in the original treaty.
ARTICLE 1.
The tariff and regulations of trade and
transit hereunto attached, bearing the seals of
the respective plenipotentiaries of the United
States and the Ia Using Empire, shall hence
forward and until duly altered under the pro-
visions of treaties be in force at the ports and
places open to commerce.
In faith whereof the respective plenipoten-
tiaries of the United States of America and of
the Ia Using Empire, to wit, on the part of
the United States, William B. Reed, envoy
extraordinary and minister plehipotentiary !;
and on the part of the Ia Using Empire
Kweiliang, member of the privy council
captain general of the Plain White Banner
Division of the Manchu Bannermen, and SUI
perintendent of the board of punishments !;
and Hwashana, classical reader at banquets,
president of the board of civil office,
captain general of the Bordered Blue
Banner Division of the Chinese Ban
nermen, both of them plenipotentaries
with Ho Kwei-tsing, governor general
OF the two Kiang Provinces, presi-
dent OF the board of war, and guardian of the
helr-apparent; Mingshen, president of the
ordnance office Of the imperial household, with
the insignia of the second grade and Twan. a
titular president of the fifth grade, member of
the establishment of the general council and
one of the junior under secretaries of the
board of punishments, all of them special i'm
perial commissioners deputed for the purpose,
have signed and sealed these presents.
Done at Shanghai this eighth day of No
vember, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-eight, and the indie
pendence of the United States of America
the eighty-third, and in the eighth year Of
Hienfung the tenth month and third day.
WILLIAM B. REED, TSEAL.
KWEILIANG,
HWASHANA,
HOKWEI-TSING, TSEAL.1