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 JAPANESE TREATY. 297 mx. The seventh binds C!orea to place no impediment in the way of Japanese vessels surveying the unknown coasts of Chosen. The eighth provides a Japanese consul to look after the interests and conduct of Japanese merchants in the newly opened ports. The ninth prevents official interference with merchants in their transactions ; and ordains that the person guilty of firaud or in debt, is to be brought to justice by the officer of either country; but no government will be responsible for any such debts. The tenth artide establishes the right of any criminal to be tried by the laws of his own country. The eleventh prepares for trade regu- lations, and the appointment of commissioners to draw them up. The twelfth, and last, binds the former eleven from the date of signature ; — which signature was on the twenty-second day of the second month of the two thousand five hundred and thirty- sixth year of the Japanese Zimmu Tenno ; and the second day of the second moon of the four hundred and eighty-fifth year of Ohosen (26th February, 1876). A "Supplementary Treaty'' was added on 14th October, 1876, ordaining — (1), That Japanese government agents in Oorea may visit the scene of any wreck of a Japanese ship ; (2), Japanese subjects may despatch letters, or other communi- >cations, to any place in Corea ; (3), They may lease lands from the people, or those belonging to government, at the rates charged to natives ; and the watch-gate and barrier existing near the Japanese establishment in Sorioko, Fusan, is to be removed, and a new boundary established ; (4), This boundaiy shall be distant, from the Japanese settlements in all the ports, ten Corean ri (li), within which space Japanese can buy or sell ; the same applies to the town of Torai, though beyond the limits ; (5), Japanese may employ Corean subjects, and the latter shall be free to visit Japan ; (6), Suitable ground will be provided to inter any Japanese dying in Corea ; (7), Japanese coin may be exchanged for Corean products ; and Coreans will be at liberty to use that coin among themselves ; if such coin is counterfeited, punishment shall be accorded by the laws of the criminars <50untry ; (8), Any Japanese articles, by purchase or gift, in the