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 CONVENTION—Jr&PAN. JULY 25, 1878. 799 of reciprocity, make the following concessions, to wit: That two addi- Additional open tional ports (whereof one shall be Shimo—no-seki, and the other shall be P°’“’· hereafter decided upon by the contracting parties jointly), from the date when the present convention may go into effect, shall be opened to citigeni and vessels of the United States, for the purposes of residence and ran e. ARTICLE VIII. It is also agreed that, as the occasion for Article V. of the treaty of Article V. of 1858, or the fifth year of Ansei, between the two countries is considered wml' Of 1858- to have passed away, that article shall, after the present treaty shall have gone into effect, be regarded as no longer binding. Anrrcma IX. It is further agreed, that such of the provisions of the treaties or con- conflicting pmventions heretofore concluded between the two countries and not herein visions. expressly abrogated, as conflict with any provisions of the present convention are hereby revoked and annulled; that the present convention shall be considered to be and form a part of the existing treaties between the two countries; that the revision of such portions of the said treaties Rgvigigm as are not modified or revoked by the present convention, as also the revision of the present convention itself, may be demanded hereafter by either of the 11igh contracting parties; and that this convention, as well as the previous treaties as modified thereby, shall continue in force until, upon such a revision of the whole, or any part thereof, it shall be otherwise provided. ARTICLE X. The present convention shall take effect when Japan shall have con- Commencement. eluded such conventions or revisions of existing treaties with all the other treaty powers holding relations with Japan as shall be similar in effect to the present convention, and such new conventions or revisions shall also go into effect. The present convention shall be ratified and the ratincations shall be Ratincation. exchanged at Washington as soon as may be within fifteen months from the date hereof. In faith whereof the above named Plenipotentiaries have hereunto set Signatures. their hands and seals, at the city of Washington, this twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, or twenty-fifth day of the seventh month of the eleventh year of Meiji. WILLIAl\I MAXWELL EVARTS, L. s. YOSHIDA KIYONARI, L. And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratiiications of the same were exchanged m the city of \Vashington on the eighth day of April, 1879. _ Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Rutherford  Hayes, Lresident Proclamation. of the United States of America, have caused the said convention 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 thereof. 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 Wa.shingto11, this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and of · [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States the one hundred and mud' n. B. rmvns. By the President:. W. M. Evnnrs, Secretary of State.