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SUPPLEMENTARY TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA j
present date. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed tbe:t
same and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.
Done at Shanghai, this eighth day of the tenth month of the thirty-sixth year of
Meiji, corresponding to the eighteenth day of the eighth moon of the twenty-ninth*
year of Kuang Hsu.
[l.s.] Hioki Eki.
„ Odagiri Masnoske.
(Signed) Ltr Hai-huan.
„ Shrug Hsuan-huai. t
„ Wtt T‘iug-fang.
Annex 1
INLAND WATERS STEAM NAVIGATION
Additional Rules
1. —Japanese steamship owners are at liberty to lease warehouses and jetties on P
the banks of waterways from Chinese subjects for a term not exceeding twenty-five-: I
years, with option of renewal on terms to be mutually arranged. In cases where j I
Japanese merchants are unable to secure warehouses and jetties from Chinese-i I
subjects on satisfactory terms, the local officials, after consultation with the Governor I
or Governor-General or Minister of Commerce, shall arrange to provide these on f|
renewable lease, as above mentioned, at current equitable rates.
2. —Jetties shall only be erected in such positions that they will not obstruct J
the inland waterway or interfere with navigation, and with the sanction of the I i
nearest Commissioner of Customs; such sanction, however, shall not be arbitrarily ;I
withheld.
3. —Japanese merchants shall pay taxes and contributions on these warehouses ;|
and jetties on the same footing as Chinese proprietors of similar properties in the ';|i
neighbourhood. Japanese merchants may only employ Chinese agents and staff to jl
reside in warehouses so leased at places touched at by steamers engaged in inland 1
traffic to carry on their business; but Japanese merchants may visit these places from |
time to time to look after their affairs. The existing rights of Chinese jurisdiction over J
Chinese subjects shall not by reason of this clause be diminished or interfered with in I
any way.
4. —Steam vessels navigating the inland waterways of China shall be responsible ;
for loss caused to riparian proprietors by damage which they may do to the banka j
or works on them, and for the loss which may be caused by such damage. In
the event of China desiring to prohibit the use of some particular shallow j
waterway by launches, because there is reason to fear that the use of it by them 31
would be likely to injure the banks and cause damage to the adjoining country, the •,
Japanese authorities, when appealed to, shall, if satisfied of the validity of the |
objection, prohibit the use of that waterway by Japanese launches, provided that ■
Chinese launches are also prohibited from using it. Both Foreign and Chinese (i
launches are prohibited from crossing dams and weirs at present in existence on ■
inland waterways where they are likely to cause injury to such works, which would
be detrimental to the water service of the local people.
5. —The main object of the Japanese Government in desiring to see the inland
waterways of China opened to steam navigation being to afford facilities for the ;
rapid transport of both foreign and native merchandise, they undertake to offer no
impediment to the transfer to a Chinese, company and the Chinese of flag any