1926

NANKING TREATY, 1842—TIENTSIN TREATY, 1858
Art. XIII.—The ratifications of this Treaty by Her Majesty the Queen of Great
IBritain, &c., and His Majesty the Emperor of China, shall be exchanged as soon
as the great distance which separates England from China will admit; but, in the
aneantime, counterpart copies of it, signed and sealed by the Plenipotentiaries on
‘behalf of their respective Sovereigns, shall be mutually delivered, and all its provisions
and arrangements shall take effect.
Done at Nanking, and signed and sealed by the Plenipotentiaries on board Her
'Britannic Majesty’s ship Cornwallis this 29th day of August, 1842; corresponding
with the Chinese date, twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, in the twenty-second
;year of Taou Kwang.
Henry Pottinger,
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary.
And signed by the seals of four Chinese Commissioners.
TIENTSIN TREATY, 1858
Ratifications exchanged at Pelcing, 24<th Octoler, 1860
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous to put an end to the existing
misunderstanding between the two countries and to place their relations on a more
-satisfactory footing in future, have resolved to proceed to a revision and improvement
of the Treaties existing between them; and, for that purpose, have named as their
Plenipotentiaries, that is to say :—
Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable the
Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, a Peer of the United Kingdom, and Knight of the
Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.
And His Majesty the Emperor of China, the High Commissioner Kweiliang, a
Senior Chief Secretary of State, styled of the East Cabinet, Captain-General of the
Plain White Banner of the Manchu Banner force, Superintendent-General of the
Administration of Criminal Law; and Hwashana, one of His Imperial Majesty’s
Expositors of the Classics, Manchu President of the Office for the Regulation of the
•Civil Establishment, Captain-General of the Bordered Blue Banner of the Chinese
Banner Force, and Visitor of the Office of Interpretation :
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers and
found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the
following Articles: —
Art. I.—The Treaty of Peace and Amity between the two nations signed at
Nanking on the twenty-ninth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-
two, is hereby renewed and confirmed.
The supplementary Treaty and General Regulations of Trade having been
amended and improved, and the substance of their provisians having been incor¬
porated in this Treaty, the said Supplementary Treaty and General Regulations of
Trade are hereby abrogated.
Art. II.—For the better preservation of harmony in future, Her Majesty the
Queen of Great Britain and His Majesty the Emperor of China mutually agree that,
in accordance with the universal practice of great and friendly nations, Her Majesty
the Queen may, if she see fit, appoint Ambassadors, Ministers, or other Diplomatic
Agents to the Court of Peking; and His Majesty the Emperor of China may, in like
manner, if he see fit, appoint Ambassadors, Ministers, or other Diplomatic Agents
to the Court of St. James.
Art. III. —His Majesty the Emperor of China hereby agrees that the Ambassador,
Minister, or other Diplomatic Agent, so appointed by Her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain, may reside, with his family and establishment, permanently at the
capital, or may visit it occasionally at the option of the British Government. He