1918

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TREATY BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN
Art. YI.—Japanese subjects may travel, for their pleasure or for puroose of
trade, to all parts of the interior of China, under passports issued by Japanese Consuls
and countersigned by the local authorities. These passports, if demanded, must bei
produced for examination in the localities passed through. If the passports be not
irregular, the bearers will be allowed to proceed and no opposition shall be offered
to their hiring of persons, animals, carts or vessels for their own conveyance or for
the carriage of their personal effects or merchandise. If they be without passports or
if they commit any offence against the law, they shall be han led over to the nearest
Consul for punishment, but they shall only be subject to necessary restraint and in no
case to ill-usage. Such passports shall remain in force for a period of 13 Chinese
months from the date of issue. Any Japanese subject travelling in the .interior
without a passport shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 310 Taels. Japanese sub¬
jects may, however, without passports go on excursions from any of tlie ports open
to trade, to a distance not exceeding 100 Chinese li and for a period not exceeding
five days. The provisions of this article do not apply to crews of ships.
Art. VII.—Japanese subjects residing in the open ports of China may take
into their service Chinese subjects and employ them in any lawful capacity without
restraint or hindrance from the Chinese Government or authorities.
Art. VIII.—Japanese subjects may hire whatever boats they please for the
conveyance of cargo or passengers and the sum to be paid for such boats shall be
settled between the parties themselves, without the interference of the Chinese
Government or officers. No limit shall be put upon the number of boats, neither
shall a monopoly, in respect either of the boats or of the porters or coolies engaged
in carrying goods, be granted to any parties. If any smuggling takes place in
them the offenders will of course be punished according to law.
Art. IX.—The Tariffs and Tariff Rules now in force between China and
the Western Powers shall be applicable to all articles upon importation into
China by Japanese subjects or from Japan, or upon exportation from China
by Japanese subjects or to Japan. It is clearly understood that all articles, the
importation or exportation of which is not expressly limited or prohibited by the
Tariffs and Tariff Rules existing between China and the Western Powers, may be
freely imported into and exported from China, subject only to the payment of the
stipulated import or export duties. But in no case shall Japanese subjects be called
upon to pay in China other or higher import or export duties than are or may
be paid by the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation ; nor shall any
article imported into China from Japan or exported from China to Japan, be
charged upon such importation or exportation, other or higher duties than are now
or may hereafter be imposed in China on the like article when imported from or
exported to the nation most favoured in those respects.
Art. X.—All articles duly imported into China by Japanese subjects or from
Japan shall, while being transported, subject to the existing Regulations, from one
open port to another, bf“ wholly exempt from all taxes, imposts, duties, leJcin, charges
and exactions of every nature and kind whatsoever, irrespective of the nationality
of the owner or possessor of the articles, or the nationality of the conveyance or
vessel in which the transportation is made.
Art. XI.—It shall be at the option of any Japanese subject desiring to convey
duly imported articles to an inland market, to clear his goods of all transit duties
by payment of a commutation transit tax or duty, equal to one-half of the import
duty m respect of dutiable articles, and two and a half per cent, upon the value in
respect of duty free articles; and on payment thereof a certificate shall be issued
which shall exempt the goods from all further inland charges whatsoever.
It is understood that this Article does not apply to imported Opium.
^rt- XII.—All Chinese goods and produce purchased by Japanese subjects in
China elsewhere than at an open port thereof and intended for export abroad, shall
m every part of China be freed from all taxes, imposts, duties, lekin, charges and
exactions of every nature and kind whatsoever, saving onlv export duties when
■exported, upon the payment of a commutation transit tax or duty calculated at the