The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-04-17
fOHTICIAL.l
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session Of tie Forty
first Congress.
CIIINA-1S6S.


ADDITIONAL ARTICLES To TIE rREATI BETWEEN III
UNITED STATES AND INA. OF JUNE Is. 1855
n TIE PREsIpEsr OF IHE UNITED rArEs OF AMERICA
PROCLAMATION
Whereas certain additional articles to the treaty
now in force between the United >taes 81 Amer
lea and the Ta-Tsing Empire, signed At IienfsiI
the 18th day OF June. 1855, were Con iGded and
sixu.-f BY Their iesiIrtentiaries AZ Washipgton.
on the 18th day II Jelly, lS6s. which additional
articles are, word for word, rs follows:
Additional articles TO the treaty between the Uni
ted States Of America and the Ia Using Empire
of the 18th Of June, ISIS
Where's since the conclusion Of the treaty be-
tween the United States Of America and the Ia
Tsinx Empire China Of the 18th oil june, 1893.
circumstances have ari-en showing The necessity
of ADDITIONAL articles thereto the President Of the
United states and the august soverei n OF the Ia
Using Empire, have named for their penipotentia-
ri-s To Wit: the President Of the United states Of
America, william IL Seward, Secretary OF State,
and hi, Majesty the Emperor Of China, Arson
BurIingame, accreJi,eda as his Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Pienipotentiary. and Chin hang and
Sun ChiA-ku. Of the second Chinese rank, associ-
Ated high envoy anc mInisfer>o f his SAID MaJesty
and the sail pletipoteniiaries, after having ex-
changed their full posers. found to be in due and
proper firm, lave s.reel upon the following arI-
eies:
being of the opinion that IN making concessions
u the citixeIs subjects Of foreign powers OF the
privilege of residing certain tracts OF land or
po.es Of trade he has by means relinqushed his
right Of eminent domain OF dominion over the said
Land and waite ;, hereby agrees that no suca Cum
ceeion grant shall be Constr uei to give to any
power or party which be war with or hos
tile to tie Cn't-d the right to attack the
cisszens of the United States or thesr property
within the said lands or waters And the United
states fog themselves. hereby agree To abstain
from extensively attacking the citizens subjects
Of any power or party OF their property with
which thes may be at war on any such tract 1t
land waters If the said empire But nothing IN
tis article shall be construed 70 prevent the Uni
tel States from resisting attack by any hostile
power or party upon their citizens or heir prop
erty. 1t is further agreed that if any right or in
tere>t in any tract Of land in China has been o.
.hali hereafter be granted BY the government Of
China to the United States or their citizens for
purposes Of trsle commerce, that grant shall in
event be construed t. divest the Chinese author
iti-, of their right Of jurisdiction persons and
property with said tract of land, except 50 TAR
thai r.eh; may have been expressly relinGui-hed
by treAiy.
his Majesty the Emperor Of China. believing that
the safety and prosperity of commerce viii thereby
best be promoted. agree that any privilege or i'm
muniy in respect totrsde OF navigation within the
Chinese domiaions which may not hsv- been slip
ria for by treaty, shall be subject TO the discre
Ito OF the Chinese government and may he resu-
lated by it accordingly, but not in n manner or
spirit Incompatible with the treaty stipnlations OF
the parties
Article III The Emperor Of China shall have
the right appint eonsuis at prts Of the United
States. who shall enjoy the zane privileges and
i.ununities Is those which enjoyed by public
law and treaty the United States by the con-uls
vi Great Britain aud Russia, or either of them.
ARTICLE w the txenty-nnth article of the
tresAy Of the 18TH of June, 1855. having stipulated
for the exemption IF Christian citizens of the Uni
ted states and Chinese converts from persecution |
in China TN account of their faith, il further
agreed that citizens OF the Cntei states in China
If every religious persuasion and Chinese subjects
in the United States shall enjoy entire liberty of
conscience and shall be exempt f ON all disability |
persecution of their religious faith
WORSHIP in either country. Cemeteries for sepul-
turs Of the dead. Of whatever nativity national
Ance or proclamation.
ARTICLE " The United States Of America and |
the Emperor Of China cordially gnize the in /
hereut and inalienable right Of to change his
ame and allegiance. and also the mutua. advan-
tAge 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 rs permanent residents. The high con-
tracing p,rtie-, therefore, in in rep-obatng
any other than entirely voluntary emigration |
for these purposes. They consequently agree to
pass laws making it penal offence for CITIZEN Of
the United States Chinese subjects to take Chi
nese subjects either to the United States any
other foreign country. for a Chinese subject or
citizen Of the United State to take citizens of the
United States to China to any other foreign
country wi bout their free AMI voluntary consent
Iesfertiveiy
Dsne at Washington the twenty eighth day Of
July. in the ye,r IF our Lord Que thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight-
lsssll WILLIAM H. SEWARD
ANsON BUaLINGAME-