9. Right of military occupation of certain points, to be determined by an understanding between the Powers, for keeping open communication between the capital and the sea.

10. (a) The Chinese Government shall cause to be published during two years in all subprefectures an Imperial decree embodying:

Perpetual prohibition, under pain of death, of membership in any antiforeign society;

Enumeration of the punishments which shall have been inflicted on the guilty, together with the suspension of all official examinations in the towns where foreigners have been murdered or have been subjected to cruel treatment.

(b) An Imperial decree shall be issued and published everywhere in the Empire declaring that all Governors-General, Governors, and Provincial or local officials shall be responsible for order in their respective jurisdictions, and that whenever fresh antiforeign disturbances or any other treaty infractions occur, which are not forthwith suppressed and the guilty persons punished, they, the said officials, shall be immediately removed and forever prohibited from holding any office or honors.

11. The Chinese Government will undertake to negotiate the amendments to the treaties of commerce and navigation considered useful by the Powers, and upon other subjects connected with commercial relations, with the object of facilitating them.

12. The Chinese Government shall undertake to reform the Office of Foreign Affairs and to modify the court ceremonial relative to the reception of foreign Representatives in the manner which the Powers shall indicate.

Until the Chinese Government have complied with the above to the satisfaction of the Powers, the Undersigned can hold out no expectation that the occupation of Peking and the province of Chihli by the general forces can be brought to a conclusion.

Peking, December 22, 1900.

For Germany,

For Austria-Hungary,

For Belgium,

For Spain,

For United States of America,

For France,

For Great Britain,

For Italy,

For Japan,

For Netherlands,

For Russia,

A. MUMM.

M. CZIKANN.
JOOSTENS.

B. J. DE COLOGAN.

E. H. CONGER.

S. PICHON.

ERNEST SATOW.

SALVAGO RAGGI.

T. NISSI.

F. M. KNOBEL.

MICHEL DE GIERS.

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(2) REPLY OF THE CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARIES TO THE JOINT NOTE OF DECEMBER 22, 1900.

PEKING, JANUARY 16, 1901.

[Translation.]

Under date of December 24, 1900, the Plenipotentiaries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Spain, the United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Russia, have sent Us the following Note:

(The Joint Note is here quoted textually and in its entirety):

We hastened to transmit the full text of this note to His Majesty the Emperor who, having taken cognizance of it, rendered the following decree:

"We have taken cognizance of the whole of the telegram of Yi K'uang and Li Hung-chang. It behooves Us to accept, in their entirety, the twelve articles which they have submitted to Us."

Consequently, we, Ch'ing, Prince of the first rank, Plenipotentiary, President of the Council of Foreign Affairs, and Li, Earl of the first rank, Su-yi, Plenipotentiary, Tutor to the Heir Apparent, Grand Secretary of the Wen-hua tien Throne Hall, Minister of Commerce, Superintendent of trade for the northern ports, Governor General of Chih-li,

Declare that we accept in their entirety the twelve articles which we have been requested to insure the transmission of to His Majesty the Emperor.

In witness of which we have signed the present protocol and we transmit to the foreign Plenipotentiaries a copy of the Edict of His Majesty the Emperor, bearing the Imperial Seal.

It is understood that in case of disagreement, the French text shall be authoritative.

(3) FINAL PROTOCOL SIGNED ON COMPLETION OF NEGOTIATIONS.

SIGNED AT PEKING SEPTEMBER 7, 1901.

[Translation from French.]

The Plenipotentiaries of Germany, His Excellency M. A. Mumm von Schwarzenstein; of Austria-Hungary, His Excellency M. M. Czikann von Wahlborn; of Belgium, His Excellency M. Joostens; of Spain, His Excellency M. B. J. de Cologan; of the United States, His Excellency M. W. W. Rockhill; of France, His Excellency M. Paul Beau; of Great Britain, His Excellency Sir Ernest Satow; of

Italy, His Excellency Marquis Salvago Raggi; of Japan, His Excellency M. Jutaro Komura; of the Netherlands, His Excellency M. F. M. Knobel; of Russia, His Excellency M. M. de Giers; and of China, His Highness Yi-K'uang Prince K'ing of the first rank, President of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and his Excellency, Li Hung-chang, Earl of Su-yi of the first rank, Tutor of the Heir Apparent, Grand Secretary of the Wen-hua Throne Hall, Minister of Commerce, Superintendent of Northern Trade, Governor-General of Chihli, have met for the purpose of declaring that China has complied to the satisfaction of the Powers with the conditions laid down in the Note of the 22nd of December, 1900, and which were accepted in their entirety by His Majesty the Emperor of China in a Decree dated the 27th of December 1900. (Annex No. 1)

sion to Berlin.

ARTICLE 1a

By an Imperial Edict of the 9th of June, last, (Annex No. 2), Tsai Feng, Prince Chün, was appointed Ambassador Expiatory mis- of His Majesty the Emperor of China, and directed in that capacity to convey to His Majesty the German Emperor the expression of the regrets of His Majesty the Emperor of China and of the Chinese Government for the assassination of His Excellency the late Baron von Ketteler, German Minister.

Prince Chün left Peking the 12th of July last to carry out the orders which had been given him.

monu

ARTICLE Ib

The Chinese Government has stated that it will erect on the spot of Expiatory the assassination of H. E. the late Baron von Ketteler ment to Baron von a commemorative monument, worthy of the rank of the deceased, and bearing an inscription in the Latin, German and Chinese languages, which shall express the regrets of H. M. the Emperor of China for the murder committed.

Ketteler.

Their Excellencies the Chinese Plenipotentiaries have informed His Excellency the German Plenipotentiary, in a letter dated the 22nd of July, last, (Annex No. 3) that an arch of the whole width of the street would be erected on the said spot, and that work on it was begun the 25th of June, last.

ARTICLE IIa

Imperial Edicts of the 13th and 21st of February, 1901 (Annexes Punishments in- Nos. 4, 5 and 6), inflicted the following punishments ficted on principal on the principal authors of the outrages and crimes committed against the Foreign Governments and their

authors of

rages.

nationals:

out

Tsai-1 Prince Tuan, and Tsai Lan Duke Fu-kuo, were sentenced to

be brought before the Autumnal Court of Assize for execution, and it was agreed that if the Emperor saw fit to grant them their lives, they should be exiled to Turkestan and there imprisoned for life, without the possibility of commutation of these punishments.

Tsai Hsün Prince Chuang, Ying-Nien, President of the Court of Censors, and Chao Shu-chiao, President of the Board of Punishments, were condemned to commit suicide.

Yü Hsien, Governor of Shanhsi, Ch'i Hsiu, President of the Board of Rites, and Hsü Cheng-yu, formerly Senior Vice President of the Board of Punishments, were condemned to death.

Posthumous degradation was inflicted on Kang Yi, Assistant Grand Secretary, President of the Board of Works, Hsü Tung, Grand Secretary, and Li Ping-heng, formerly Governor General of Szu-ch'uan. An Imperial Edict of February 13th, 1901 (Annex No. 7) rehabilitated the memories of Hsü Yung-yi, President of the Rehabilitation of Board of War, Li Shan, President of the Board of Works, Hsü Ching-cheng, Senior Vice President of the Board of Works, Lien Yuan, Vice Chancellor of the Grand Council, and Yuan Chang, Vice President of the Court of Sacrifices, who had been put to death for having protested against the outrageous breaches of International law of last year.

deceased officials.

Prince Chuang committed suicide the 21st of February, 1901, Ying Nien and Chao Shu-chiao the 24th, Yü Hsien was executed the 22nd, Ch'i Hsiu and Hsü Cheng-yu on the 26th. Tung Fu-hsiang, General in Kan-su, has been deprived of his office by Imperial Edict of the 13th of February, 1901, pending the determination of the final punishment to be inflicted on him.

Imperial Edicts dated the 29th of April and 19th of August 1901, have inflicted various punishments on the provincial officials convicted of the crimes and outrages of last Summer.

ARTICLE IIb

An Imperial Edict promulgated the 19th of August, 1901 (Annex Suspension of No. 8), ordered the suspension of official examinations examina- for five years in all cities where foreigners were massacred or submitted to cruel treatment.

official tions.

Expiatory mis

sion to Japan.

ARTICLE III

So as to make honorable reparation for the assassination of Mr. Sugiyama, Chancellor of the Japanese Legation, His Majesty the Emperor of China by an Imperial Edict of the 18th of June 1901 (Annex No. 9), appointed Na Tung, Vice President of the Board of Finances, to be his Envoy Extraordinary and specially directed him to convey to His Majesty the

Emperor of Japan the expression of the regrets of H. M. the Emperor of China and of his Government at the assassination of the late Mr. Sugiyama.

ARTICLE IV

The Chinese Government has agreed to erect an expiatory monument in each of the foreign or international cemeteries which were desecrated and in which the tombs were destroyed.

Expiatory monuments in desecrated cemeteries.

It has been agreed with the Representatives of the Powers that the Legations interested shall settle the details for the erection of these monuments, China bearing all the expenses thereof, estimated at ten thousand taels for the cemeteries at Peking and in its neighborhood, and at five thousand taels for the cemeteries in the provinces. The amounts have been paid and the list of these cemeteries is enclosed herewith. (Annex No. 10).

ARTICLE V.

China has agreed to prohibit the importation into its territory of Prohibition of arms and ammunition, as well as of materials excluimportation of sively used for the manufacture of arms and ammu

arms, etc.

nition.

An Imperial Edict has been issued on the 25th of August, 1901, (Annex No. 11), forbidding said importation for a term of two years. New Edicts may be issued subsequently extending this by other successive terms of two years in case of necessity recognized by the Powers.

ARTICLE VI.

By an Imperial Edict dated the 29th of May, 1901 (Annex No. 12), His Majesty the Emperor of China agreed to pay the Indemnity to the Powers an indemnity of Four hundred and fifty millions of Haikwan taels.

Powers.

This sum represents the total amount of the indemnities for States, Companies or Societies, private individuals and Chinese referred to in Article VI of the Note of December 22nd, 1900.

(a) These Four hundred and fifty millions constitute a gold debt Amount of in- calculated at the rate of the Haikwan Tael to the gold demnity. currency of each country, as indicated below.