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TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA
Art. X.—It is well understood between tbe contracting parties that the tonnage
dues which by error were fixed in the French Treaty of Tientsin at five mace per ton
for vessels of 150 tons and over, and which in the Treaties with England and the
United States signed in 1858 were fixed at four mace only, shall not exceed this
same sum of four mace, and this without the invocation of the last paragraph of
Art. XXXII. of the Treaty of Tientsin, which gives to France the formal right to
claim the same treatment as the most favoured nation.
The present Convention of Peace has been made at Peking, in four copies, on the
25th October, 1860, and has been signed by the respective plenipotentiaries.
TREATY OE PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, AND COMMERCE
BETWEEN PRANCE AND CHINA
Signed at Tientsin, 9th June, 1885
The President of the French Republic and His Majesty the Emperor of China,
each animated by an equal desire to l>ring to an end the difficulties which have
given rise to their simultaneous intervention in the affairs of Annam, and wishing to
re-establish and improve the relations of friendship and commerce which previously
existed between France and China, have resolved to conclude a new Treaty to further
the common interest of both nations on the basis of the preliminary Convention
signed at Tientsin on the 11th May, 1884, and ratified by an Imperial decree of the
13th April, 1885.
For that purpose the two high contracting parties have appointed as their Pleni¬
potentiaries the following, that is to say :—
The President of the French Republic, M. Jules Patenotre, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary for France in China, Officer of the Legion of Honour,
Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the Pole Star, &c., &c.
And His Majesty the Emperor of China, Li Hung-chang, Imperial Commissioner,
Senior Grand Secretary of State, Grand Honorary Preceptor of the Heir Presumptive;
Superintendent of Trade for the Northern Ports, Governor-General of the Province
of Chihli, of the First degree of the Third Order of Nobility, with the title of Sou-yi;
Assisted by Hsi Chen, Imperial Commissioner, Member of the Tsung-li Yamen,
President of the Board of Punishments, Administrator of the Treasury at the Ministry
of Finance, Director of Schools for the Education of Hereditary Officers of the
Left Wing of the Yellow Bordered Banner ;
And Teng Chang-su, Imperial Commissioner, Member of the Tsung-li Yamen,
Director of the Board of Ceremonies ;
Who, having communicated their full powers, which have been found in good
and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:—
Art. I.—France engages to re-establish and maintain order in those provinces of
Annam which border upon the Chinese empire. For this purpose she will take the
necessary measures to disperse or expel the bands of pirates and vagabonds who
endanger the public safety, and to prevent their collecting together again. Nevertheless,
the French troops shall not, under any circumstances, cross the frontier which separates