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CONVENTION BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND CHINA
CoiTVENSFION
It having been stipulated in the Art. IV. of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce,,
concluded between Portugal and China on the 1st day of the month of December,
1887, that a Convention shall be arranged between the two high contracting parties'
in order to establish a basis of co-operation in collecting the revenue on opium ex-j
ported from Macao to Chinese ports, the undersigned Thomas de Souza Roza, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Faithful Majesty the King:
of Portugal and the Algarves, in special mission to the Court of Peking, and His
Highness Prince Ching, President of the Tsung-li Yamen, and Sun, Minister of ;
the Tsung-li Yamen and Senior Vice-President of the Board of Public Works, Min-!
isters Plenipotentiary of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, have agreed j
on the following Convention in three Articles:—
Art. I.—Portugal will enact a law subjecting the opium trade of Macao to the-
following provisions:—
1. —No opium shall be imported into Macao in quantities less than one chest. i
2. —All opium imported into Macao must, forthwith on arrival, be reported to-!
the competent department under a public functionary appointed by the Portuguese!
Government, to superintend the importation and exportation of opium in Macao.
3. —No opium imported into Macao shall be transhipped, landed, stored, removed;
from one store to another, or exported, without a permit issued by the Superintendent.
4. —The importers and exporters of opium in Macao must keep a register, accord¬
ing to the form furnished by the Government, showing with exactness and clearness j
the quantity of opium they have imported, the number of chests they have sold, to
whom and to what place they were disposed of, and the quantity in stock.
5. —Only the Macao opium farmer, and persons licensed to sell opium at retail,
will be permitted to keep in their custody raw opium in quantities inferior to one chest..
6. —Regulations framed to enforce in Macao the execution of this law will be
equivalent to those adopted in Hongkong for similar purposes.
Art. II.—Permits for the exportation of opium from Macao into Chinese ports,
after being issued, shall be communicated by the Superintendent of Opium to the
Commissioner of Customs at Kung-pac-uan.
Art. III.—By mutual consent of both the high contracting parties the stipula¬
tions of this Convention may be altered at any time.
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this-
Convention.
Done in Peking this first day of December in the year of Our Lord Jesus Christ
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, corresponding to the Chinese date of
the seventeenth day of the tenth moon of the thirteenth year of Kwang Hsu.
[l.s.] (Signed)
[Chinese Seal]
Thomas de Souza Roza.
Peince Ch’ing.
Sun-iu-uen.
Signature of the Chinese Plenipotentiaries.
Agbeement
The basis of the co-operation to be given to China by Portugal in the collection
of duties on opium conveyed from Macao to Chinese ports, having been fixed by a
Convention appended to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, concluded between
China and Portugal on the 1st December, 1887, and it being now convenient to come
to an understanding upon some points relating to the said co-operation as well as to
fixed rales for the treatment of Chinese junks trading with Macao, Bernardo Pinheiro
Correa de Mello, Secretary of the Special Mission of His Most Faithful Majesty in