Evening star., 1870-02-07
OFFICIAL.
BY the President Of TIE United States q America
A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas certain additional articles to the
Treaty now in force between the United States
of America and the Ta-Tsing Empire, signed
at Tientsin, the 18th day of June, 1853, were
concluded and signed by their Plenipotentiaries
at Washington, on the 18th day of July, 1868,
which additional articles are, word for word, as
follows:
Additional Articles to the Treaty be.
tween the United States Of America
and the Ta.Tsinx Empire Of the 18th
Of June, lSJS.
Whereas since the conclusion of the treaty be-
tween the United States of America and the
Ta-Tsing Empire (China) of the 18th of June,
lsoo, circumstances have arisen showing the
necessity of additional articles thereto, the
President of the United States and the august
sovereign OF the Ta-Tsing Empire have named
fpr their plenip0tentiaries, to wit: the Presi-
dent of the United States of America, William
ii. Seward Secretary of State, and his Majesty
the Emperor of China, Anson Burlingame, ac
credited as his Envoy Extraordinary and Min
ister Plenipotentiary, anI Chih-kang and Sun
Chia-ku, of the second Chinese rank, associated
high ENJOYS and ministers OF his said Majesty,
and the said plenipOtentiaries. after having ex-
changed their full powers, found to be i'm due
and proper form, have agreed upon the follow
ing articles:
ARTICLE /.
His Majesty the Emperor of China being of
the opinion that, in making concessions to the
citizens or subjects of foreign Powers of the
privilege of residing on certain tracts of land
OF resOrtiDg to certain waters of that empire
for purposes OF trade, he has by no means re-
inpuished his right of eminent domain or do
minon over the said land and waters hereby
agrees that no such concession or grant shall be
construed to give to any Power or party which
may be at war with or hostile to the United
States the right to attack the citizens of the
United States or their property within the said
lands or waters. And the United States, for
themselves, hereby agree to abstain from often
sively attacking the citizens subjects of any
Power or party or their property with which
they may be at war, on any such tract of land
or waters of the said empire. But nothing in
this article shall be construed to prevent the
United States from resisting an attack by any
hostile Power or party upon their citizens or
their property. 1t is further agreed that if any
right or interest in any tract of land in China
ha0 been or shall hereafter be granted by the
Government of China to the United States or
their citizens for purposes of trade or COM
meIce, that grant shall in no event be construed
to divest the Chinese authorities of their right
of jurisdiction over persons and property
within said tract of land, except far as that
right may have been expressly relinquished by
treaty.
The United States of America and his Majesty
the Emperor of China, believing that the safety
and pros perity Of commerce will thereby best be
promoted, agree that any privilege or immunity
in respect to trade or navigation within the Chi
nese do nnions which may not have been stipu-
lated for by treaty, shall be subject to the dis
cretion Of the Chinese Government, and NAV be
regulated by il accordingly, but not in manner
or spirit incompatible with the treaty stipula-
tons of the parties.
ARTICLE Ill.
The Emperor OF China shall have the right to
appoint Consuls at ports of the United States,
who shall enjoy the same privileges and immu-
mites as those which are enjoyed by public law
and treaty in the United States, by the Consuls
OF Great Britain and Russia, or either OF them.
ARTICLE ".
The twenty-ninth article of the treaty of the
18th of June, 1855, having stipulated for the
arNnrtf Of 4
States and Chinese converts from persecution
in China on account of their faith, il is further
agreed that citizens of the United States in
China, of every religious persuasion and Chi
nese subjects in the United States, shall enjoy
entire liberty of conscience and shall be excm ut
from all disability or persecution on account of
their religious faith or worship in either coun-
try. Cemeteries for sepulture OF the dead, of
whatever nativity or nationality, shall be held
in respect and free from disturbance or profa-
Ia ION.
ARTICLE V.
The United States of America and the Empe-
Tor OF China cordially recognize the inherent
and inalienable right OF man to change his home
and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage
Of the free migration and emigration of their
citizens and subjects, respectively from the one
country to the other, for purposes of CURIOSITY
OF trade, or as permanent residents. The high
contracting parties therefore join in reprobating
any other than an entirely voluntary emigration
for these purposes. They consequently agree to
pass laws making it a penal Offense for a citizen
Chinese subjects either to the United States or
to any other foreign country, or for Chinese
subject or citizen OF the United States to take
cltiZens OF the United States to China or to any
other foreign country without their free and
voluntary consent respectively.
ARTICLE vi.
Citizens of the United States visiting or resid-
ing in China shall enjoy the same privileges,
immunities, or exemptions i'm respect to travel
or residence as may there be enjoyed by the cit
izcHs subjects of the most favored nation
reclpTOcally. Chimes. SnbipctS Or
residing in the United States, shall enjoy the
same privileges, immunities, and exemptions in
respect to travel or residence as may there be
enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most
favOSed nation. But nothing herein contained
shall be held to confer naturalization upon citi-
Zsns Of the United States in China, nor upon
The subjects Of China in the United States
ARTICLE VII.
Citizens OF the United States shall enjoy all
the privileges OF the public educ atiOnal institu-
tons under the control of the Government OF
China, and recIprocally Chinese subjects shall
enjoy all the privileges of the public educational
Institutions under the control of the Govern
inent OF the United States, which are enjoyed
IN the respective countries by the citizens or
subjects OF the most favored nation. The citi-
Zens Of the United States may freely establish
and maintain schools within the Empire of China
al those places where foreigners are by treaty
permitted to reside, and, recprOcally, Chinese
subjects may enjoy the same privileges and i'm
munities in the United States.
ARTICLE VIII.
The United States, always disclaimng and
discouraeing all practices of unnecessary die
tat1on and Intervention by one nation in the
ana T. or domestic administration of another,
do hereby freely disclaim and disavOw any in
tention or light 10 intervene i'm the domestic ad-
ministraton Of China, i'll re gard To the cOnstruc-
ton OF railroads, telegraphs, or other material
internal improvements. On the other hand, his
Majesty, the Emperor of China, reserves to
himself the right to decide the time and manner
and circumstances of introducing such improve
ment- within his dOminions With this matual
understanding it is agreed by the contracting
parties that II at anv time hereafter his Impe-
rial Majesty shall determine to construct or
cause to be constructed works of the character
mentioned within the nrfire, and shall make
application to the United States or any other
Western Power for facilities to carry out that
policy, the United States will, in that case, de-
signate and authorize suitable engineers to be
employed by the Chinese Government and will
recommend to other nations an equal compli-
ance with such application, the Chinese Gov
ernment In that case protecting such engineers
IN their persons and property, and paving them
q reasonable compensation for their services
In faith whereof, the respective PlenipOten-
tiaries have signed this treaty, and thcreunto
affixed the seals of their arms.
Done at Washington the twenty-eighth day
of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and siSty-eight.
GsEAL-1 WILLIAM II. SEWARD,