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 828 SUPPLEMENTAL TBEATY——CHIN A. N OVEMBEB 17, 1880. November 17, 1880. Supplemental treaty between the United States and China, concerning —-———· commercial intercourse and judicial procedure. Ooncluded November 17, 1880; ratijication advised by the Senate, May 5, 1881; ratified by the President, May 9, 1881; ratifications exchanged, July 19, 1881; proclaimed Oetober 5, 1881. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Proclamation. Whereas a supplemental treaty between the United States of America and China, for supplying certain points of incompleteness in the existing treaties between the two governments in the matter of commercial intercourse and of judicial procedure, was concluded and signed at Peking, in the English and Chinese languages, on the seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, the original of the English text of which treaty is word for word as follows: _C<>¤tr¤¤ti¤gpv·r- The President of the United States of America and His Imperial as their commissioners plcnipotentiary, that is to say: The President of the United States, James B. Angell of Michigan, Jgllin F. Swift of California, and William Henry Trescot of South Caro a · His; Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of China, Pao Chiin,'a inember of His Imperial Majcsty’s privy council and superintendent of the board of civil office, and Li Hungtsao, a member of His Imperial Majestys privy council, who have agreed upon and concluded the following additional articles: Anrrcrrx I. V Commercial m- The Governments of the United States and China, recognizing the latimns. benehts of their past commercial relations, and in order still further to promote such relations between the citizens and subjects of the two powers, mutually agree to give the most careful and favorable attention to the representations of either as to such special extension of com mercial intercourse as either may desire. Anrrcm II. Mutual ,%,8,, _ The Governments of China and of the United States mutually agree and ment to prohibit undertake that Chinese subjects shall not be permitted to import opium ¤¤}P01‘*¤*iQ¤ of into any of the ports of the United States; and citizens of the United gg;?:,:? Ch"‘°“° States shall not be permitted to import opium into any of the open ports Iof China; to transport it nom one open port to any other open port; or to buy and sell opium in anyof the open portsof China. This absolute prohibition, which extends to vessels owned by the citizens or subjects of either power, to foreign vessels employed by them, or to vessels owned by the citizens or subjects of either power and employed by other persons for the transportation of opium, shall be enforced by appro; riate legislation on the part of China and the United States · and the benefits of the favored nation clause in existing treaties shall not be claimed _ gylghe cigzens or subjects of either power as against the provisions of
 * 1**- Majesty the Emperor of China, because of certain points of incompleteness in the existing treaties between the two governments, have named