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 {46 PUBLIC TREATIES. Superiutend on t The high omcer appointed by the Chinese_Government to euperinfend foreign trade of foreign trade. will accordingly, from time to time, either himself visit, or will send a deputy to visit, the different ports. The said high omcer will be at liberty of his own choim, inde- Smugguug pendentliy pif me sudggesniéonh or nominngon ofdapy Ameiiicaipd authority, to sieleet any ‘ ·'ti .. o t c nite ta s ema see to ai iim in the ministration o th tdmysnievenue, in the prcventionlrf smuggling, in the definition of port bonnallifidz, Lhhm MMO,,,, or in discharging the duties of harbor-master; also in the distribution of lights, buoyg, &,,_ " ’ ’ beacons, and the like, the maintenance of which shall be provided for out of the ton- D3!8 H08- 'l‘ho Chinese Govemment will adopt what measures it shall find requisite to prevent smuggling up the Yang-tsz-Kiang, when that river shall be open to trade. [SEAL.] WILLIAM B. REED. CHINA, 1858. Nw 8 ,858 SIIPPLEMENTAL CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMER- _- .;; ._ ICA AND THE TA TSING EMPIRE FOR THE ADJUSTMENT OF CLAIMS, CONCLUDED AT SHANGHAI NOVEMBER B, 1858; RATII·*ICATION ADVISED BY SENATE MARCH 1, 1859; RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT MARCH 3, 1859. [The arrangement made at Tien-Tsin, and called a convention in the preamble to this convention, was made through the medium of correspondence. For this and other reasolnstthe sunplemeptnltconyeintion was entered into. This convention is, therefore, in su ance, e per ec rea y. p,,,,,,,,;,y,,_ In order to carry into effect the convention made at Tien-tsin by the High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries respectively representing the United States of America and the Ta Tsin g Empire, for the satisfaction of claims of American citizens, by which it was agreed thatoiicfifth of all tonnage, import and export duties, payable on American ships and goods shipped in American vessels at the ports of Canton, Sha(pg;1:n,anl;1 linhlgchau, {so (nn amount not exceeding six hundred thousan e s, s ou e app ie to that end; and the Plenipotentiary of the United States, actuated by a friendly feeling towards China, is willing, on behalf of the United States, to reduce the amount needed for such claims to an aggregate of five hundred thousand taels, it is now expressly agreed by_the high contracting parties in the form of a supplementary convention, as follows: Aarrcm I. Liquidation _ of That on thefirst day of the next Chinese year the collectors of cusclpiuis of American toms at the said three ports shall issue debentures to the amount of HV6 °' "°“”· hundred thousand taels, to be delivered to such persons as may be named by the Minister or chief diplomatic officer of the United States in China, and it is agreed that the amount shall be distributed as follows: Three hundred thousand taels at, Canton, one hundred thousand taels at Shanghai, and one hundred thousand taels at Fuh chan, which shall be received in payment of one-fifth of the tonnage, export and import duties_ on American ships, or goods in American ships at the said pprg,_and iit rgagrced thnt this amount shall be in full liquidation of u aims o merican Cl izens at the various orts to this date. signatures. —_Iu faith whereof the respective Plenipotentialiies of the United States ng Auéeréca and the Ta 'Ising Empire, that is to say, on the part of the Ppite tapes, William B. Reed, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister . cnmotenttinry, and on the part of the_Ta Tsing Empire, Kweiliang, a mem er Ip the Privy Council, Capta1n·General of the Plain White Banlngr f ivision of the Manchu Bannermen and Superintendent of the Pea do Pnmshments; and ldwashana, Classical Reader at Banquets, Bncsi Bent oi the Ecard ot Civil Ciiiee, Captain-General of the Bord6I‘0¤l ue anner Division of the Chinese Bannermen, both of them Pleni- };l;`$gl?l;né\£L§;rV;1;J(l; do-Excl-§ing,1Governor-General of the two Kiwlg ’ l _S GH 0 e oar of, War and Guardian of the HGH'- Appnrcnt; Mmgshen, President of the Ordnance Office of the Imperial