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Transit Dues.

ted by the customs, and the same shall be notified
to the Consuls for public information
Transit Dues.
1t is agreed that the amount of transit dues
legally 1evyable upon merchandise imported
exported shall be one half the tariff duties,
cept in the case of the duty free goods Liable to
lorem, as provided in No. of these Rules.
Merchandise shall be cleared of its transit dues
UNDER m the following regulations:
the port of entry from which the imports are to
forwarded inland of the nature and quantity of
landed, and the place inland to which they
bound, with all other necessary particulars, the
collector of customs shall, on due inspection
made, and on receipt of the transit duty due,
issue transit duty certificate This must be pro-
duced at every barrier station, and vsecd. No
further duty will be levyable upon imports SO
certlhcated, no matter how distant the place of
their destination.
In the case of exports Produce purchased by
citizen of the United States in the interior will
be inspected and taken account of at the first
barrier it passes on its way to the port.of ship
ment A memorandum, showing the amount of
the produce, and the port at which it is to be
shipped, will be deposited there by the person in
charge of the produce He will then receive a
certificate, which must be exhibited and vsecd at
On the arrival of the produce at the barrier near
est the port notice must be given to the customs
at the port, and the transit dues due thereon be-
ing paid it will be passed. On expectation the
produce will pay the tariff duty.
ANY attempt to pass goods inwards or outwards
otherwise than in compliance with the rule here
laid down, will render them liable to confisca-
ton. Unauthorized sale in transitu of goods
that have been entered as above for port will
render them liable coniscation. Any attempt to
pass goods in excess of the quantity specified in
the certificate will render all the goods of the
same denomination named in the certificate liable
to confiscation. Permission to export produce
which cannot be proved to have paid its transit
dues will be refused by the customs until the
transit dues shall have been paid
RULE VIII.
Trade with the Capital
1t is agreed that no citizen of the United States
shall have the privilege of entering the capital
city of Peking for the purposes of trade.
RULE TX.
Abolition of the Melt:ige Fee.
1t is agreed that the per centage of one taer
two mace hitherto charged, in excess of Cuty
payments, to defray the expenses of melting by
the Chinese Government, shall no longer be
levied on citizens of the United States
RULE x.
Collection of Duties under one System at all
Ports.
1t being, by treaty, at the option of the Chinese
Government to adopt what means appear to it
best suited to protect its revenue accruing on
American trade, it is agreed that one uniform
system shall be enforced at every port.
The high officer appointed by the Chinese Gov
ernmcnt to superintend foreign trade will accord
lnSly, from time to time, either himself visit
will send a dupty to visit, the different ports.
The said high officer will be at liberty of his own
choice, independently of the suggestion nomi-
nation OF any American authority, to select any
citizen of the United States he may see fit to aid
him in the administration of the customs revenue,
in the prevention OF smuggling, in the definition
of port boundaries or in dischaIging the duties
OF harbor-master; also in the distribution of
lights, buoys, beacons, and the like, the mainten
ance of which shall be provided for out of the
tonnage dues.
The Chinese government will adopt what meas
ures it shall find requisite to prevent smuggling
all h
open to trade.
WILLIAM B. REED, [sEAL
Convention between the United States and China
for the Adjustment of Claims. Concluded No
vembcr 8, 1858.
In order to carry into effect the Convention
made at Tien-tsin by the High Commissioners
and Plenipotentiaries respectively representing
the United States of America and the Ia Using
Empire, for the satisfaction of claims of Ameri-
can citizens, by which it was agreed that one
fifth of all tonnage, import and export duties
payable on American ships and goods shipped in
American vessels at the ports of Canton, Shan
ghai, and Fuh-chau, to an amount not exceeding
six hundred thousand taels should be applied to
that end; and the Plenipotentiary of the United
States, actuated by friendly feeling towards
China, is willing, on behalf of the United States,
an aggregate of five hundred thousand tacs, it is
now expressly agreed by the high contracting
parties in the form of supplementary Conven-
Article 1. That on the first day of the next
Chinese year the Collector of customs at the said
three ports shall issue debentures to the amount
of five hundred thousand taes, to be delivered to
such persons as may be named by the Minister
chief diplomatic officer of the United States in
China, and 1t is afireed that the amount shall be
distributed follows: Three hundred thousand
taels at Canton, hundred thousand taels at
Shanghai, and one hundred thousand taels at
Fuh chau, which shall be received in payment of
one-fifth OF the tonnage, export and import du-
ties OH American ships, or goods in American
ships at the said ports, and it is agreed that this
.Io11 eli
of American citizens at the various ports to this
date
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentia-
ries of the United States of America and of the
Ia Tsing Empire; that is to say, on the part of
the United States, William B. Reed, Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and on
the part of the Ta-Tsing Empire
Kweiliang, member of the Privy Council,
Captain General of the Plain " hite Banner Di-
vision of the Manchu Bannermen, and Superin-
tendent of the Board or Punishments, and Hwa-
shana, Classical Reader at Banquets President of
the Board of Civil Office, Captain General of the
Bannermen, both of them Plenipotentiaries, with
Ho-Kwei-tsing, Governor-General of the two
Kiang Provinces, President of the Board of War,
and Guardian of the Heir-Apparent; Mingshen,
President of the Ordnance Office of the Imperial
Household, with the Insignia of the Second
Grade, and Twan, titular President of the Fifth
Grade, member of the Establishment of the Gen
eral Council, and one of the Junior under Secre
taries of the Board of Punshments, all of them
special Imperial Commissioners deputed for the
purpose, have signed and sealed these presents.
Done at Shanghai this eighth day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and fifty eight, and of the independence of
the United States the eighty third, and in the
eighth year of Heinfung, the tenth month and
third day.
WILLIAM B. REED. lsEAL.1
KWEILIANG. |
HWASHANA.
HO-KWEI-TSING. TsEAL.l
MINGSHEN.
TWAIN.
Convention between the United States of Ameri
and the Rupublic of Costa Rica, for the adj
justment of claims. Signed at San Jose, July
2, 1860 Ratified by the President of the Unit
ed States, November 9, 1861. Exchange OF "a
tifications, November 9, 1861. Proclaimed by