Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-17
THE COMMERCIAL TREATY.

THE COMMERCIAL TREATY,
The following is the full text of the COM
mercial treaty signed on the same day:
The President of the United States of
America and His Imperial Majesty the EN-
peror of China, because Of certain points of
inccmpletness in the existing treaties between
the two Governments, have named as their
Commissioners Plenipoteatiary The Presi-
dent of the United States CT America-Ja James
B. Angel, of Michigan; John F. Swift, of
California, and William H. Trescott, of
South Carolina, as his Commissioners Pleni-
potentiary; and His Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of China has appointed Pao Chun,
a member of His Imperial Majestys Privy
Council and Superintendent of the Beard of
Civil Office, and ii Hung Tsao, member of
His Imperial Majesty's Privy Council, as his
Commissioners Plenipotentiary, and the said
Commissioners Plenipotentiary having con-
jointly examined their full powers, and hav.
ing discussed the points of possible modifca-
tions In existing treaties, have agreed upon
the following additional articles:
l. The Government of the United States and
China, recognizing the benefits of their past
commercial relations, and in order to still
citizens and subjects of the two Powers,
mutually agree to give the most careful and
favorable attention to the representations Of
either SO to such special extension of COM
mercial intercourse as either may desire.
2. The G Jvernments OF China and of the
United States mutually agree and undertake
that Chinese subjects shall not be permitted
to import opium in any of the ports of the
United States, and citizens of the United
States shall not be permitted to import opium
into any of the open ports of China, or to
transport from one open port to any other
open port, or to buy and sell opium in any of
the open ports of China. This absolute pro-
hibition, which extends to vessels owned by
the citizens or the subjects Of either Power,
to foreign vessels employed by them. or to
vessels owned by the citizens or subjects of
either Power and employed by other persons
for transportation of opium. shall be en-
forced by appropriate legislation on the part
of China and the United States, and the
benefits OF the favored claims in existing
treaties shall not be claimed by the citizens
or subjects of either Power as against the
provisions of this article.
3. His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of
China, hereby promises aud agrees that no
other kind or higher rate OF tonnage dues or
duties for imports or exports or coastwise
trade shall be imposed or levied in the open
ports of China upon vessels wholly belonging
to citizens of the United States, or upon the
produce, manufactures or merchandise i'm
ported on the same FROM the United States
or from any foreign country, or upon the
produce, manufactures, or merchandise ex-
ported in the same to the United States, or
to any foreign country. or transported in the
same from one open port OF China to another,
than are imposed or levied OF vessels or car
goes of any other nation, or on those of China
| subjects. The United States hereby prom
ises and agrees that no other kind or higher
rate of tonnage duties or dues for imports
shall be imposed or levied In the ports Of the
United States upon vessels wholly belonging
to the subjects of his Imperial Majesty. com.
ing either directly or by way of any foreign