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 1068 TREATY WITH THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN. JULY 29, 1858. Lead. Lood. Tin. Tin. Raw silk. Ruwe Zyde. CWB 8- Class ]7zree.—A duty of (35) Klasse Dric.-Een regt van (35) thirty-Eve per cent. shall be paid vyf endertig per cent., zal worden on all intoxicating liquors, whether betdald op alle de zinnen beneveprepared by distillation, fermenta— lende drankcn, door distillatie, gition, or in any other manner. sting, of op eenige andere wyze, bereid. Class 4. Ulass Four.--All goods not included in any of the preceding Klasse T/Ter.-Alle en eenige der classes shall pay a duty of (20) voorgaande klussen, niet vermelde twenty per cent. _ goederen, zullen een regt van (20) Exports. All articles of Japanese produc- twintig per cent. betalen. tion, which are exported as cargo, Behalve gouden en zilveren munt shall pay a duty of (5) five per en koper in staven, zullcn alle, in cent., with the exception of gold Japan, voortgebragte artikelen, die and silver coin and copper in bars. als lading, worden uitgevoerd, een (5) Fiveyears after the opening of regt van (5) vyf per cent. betalen. Kanagawa the import and export Vyf jaren na de openstelling van duties shall be subject to revision Kanagawa zullen de in en uitgaanif the Japanese government desires de regteu aan herziening onderworit. pen zyn, indien de Japansche rege- TOWN SEND HARRIS. [L. s.] ring zulks verlangt. Bstineations And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, §§g&;?gn“3Iay and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Washing- 22,1360, ’ ton on the 22d inst. by Lewis Cass, Secretary of State of the United States, and Simme Boozen no Kami, Muragaki Awadsi no Kami, and Ogure Bungo no Kami, Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Ty—Coon of Japan, on the part of their respective governments: » Proclamation, Now, therefore, be it known that I, JAMES BUCHANAN, President New 23·18°°· of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereoti In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred [SEAL.] and sixty, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-fourth. JAMES BUCHANAN. By the President: Lnwxs Cass, Secretary of State.