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 TREATY WITH JAPAN, MARCH 31, 1854. 597 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a treaty of peace and amity between the United States of Mm,} 81 185,, America and the Empire of Japan was concluded and signed between —¥+-—- their plenipotentiaries at Kanagawa on the thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, which treaty is, word for word, as follows :— The United States of America and the Empire of Japan, desiring to es- Title, tablish firm, lasting, and sincere friendship between the two nations, have resolved to fix, in a manner clear and positive, by means of a treaty or general convention of peace and amity, the rules which shall in future be mutually observed in the intercourse of their respective countries; for Pmmblm which most desirable object the President of the United States has conferred full powers on his commissioner, Matthew Calbraith Perry, special ambassador of the United States to Japan, and the August Sovereign of Japan has given similar full powers to his commissioners, Hayashi, Daigaku-no-kami, Ido, prince of Tsus-Sima, Izawa, prince of Mimasaki, and Udono, member of the board of revenue. And the said commissioners, after having exchanged their said full powers, and duly considered the premises, have agreed to the following articles :— ARTICLE 1. There shall be a perfect, permanent, and universal peace and a sincere and cordial amity between the United States of America on the one part, and the empire of Japan on the other part, and between their people respectively, without exception of persons or places. ARTICLE 2. The port of Simoda, in the principality of Idzu, and the _ port of Hakodade, in the principality of Matsmai, are granted by the P°“°l’°°“‘°‘ Japanese as ports for the reception of American ships, where they can be supplied with wood, water, provisions, and coal, and other articles their necessities may require, as far as the Japanese have them. The time for Simoda and opening the first-named port is immediately on signing this treaty; the Ig‘k°d°·d°t;’Pt?“‘ last-named port is to be opened immediately after the same day in the 2,,,;iul;f,p0,g;_ ensuing Japanese year. [Note.—A tariff of prices shall be given by the Japanese officers of the things which they can furnish, payment for which shall be made in gold and silver coin.] ARTICLE 3. Whenever ships of the United States are thrown or wrecked on the coast of Japan, the Japanese vessels will assist them, and carry their crews to Simoda, or Hakodade, and hand them over to their countrymen appointed to receive them; whatever articles the shipwrecked men may have preserved shall likewise be restored, and the expenses in- Provision for ourred in the rescue and support of Americans and Japanese who may **h° ,°°·*" °l thus be thrown upon the shores of either nation are not to be refunded. Anrrcmz 4. Those shipwrecked persons and other citizens of the United States shall be free as in other countries, and not subjected to connement, but shall be amenable to just laws. Anrronn 5. Shipwrecked men and other citizens of the United States, temporarily living at Simoda and Hakodade, shall not be subject Same subject. to such restrictions and confinement as the Dutch and Chinese are at Nagasaki, but shall be free at Simoda to go where they please within the limits of seven Japanese miles (or  from a small island in the harbor sms ,u],jc,,$_ of Simoda, marked on the accompanying chart hereto appended; and shall in like manner be free to go where they please at Hakodade, within lipiits to be defined after the visit of the United States squadron to that p ace. ARTICLE 6. If there be any other sort of goods wanted, or any ·busi- Provision {or ness which shall require to be arranged, there shall be careful deliberation ggb:§;°“ ‘f between the parties in order to settle such matters. wasted, ngs m