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reclaimed ground shall be allowed to pursue their avocations in peace and enjoy protection for their lives and property.

Migration.

Frontier mart.

Ships of war.

From this time forward migration across the frontier shall be prohibited on both sides in order to avoid complications.

The question of the determination of the site of a trade mart is reserved for discussion and settlement when the frontier rules come to be drawn up.

ARTICLE XIII.

The ships of war of each country shall be at liberty to visit all the ports of the other whether open to foreign trade or not.

They shall not be permitted to clandestinely import merchandise. Supplies of all kinds for ships of war of either country shall not be liable to the payment of duties.

Officers and men of the ships of war of either country may land anywhere in the territories of the other, but shall not proceed into the interior unless they are provided with passports.

If articles used on board ship are for any reason sold, the purchaser shall pay the proper duty.

ARTICLE XIV.

The present treaty shall be ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of Korea and His Majesty the Emperor of China under their hands and seals, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Seoul within one year at the latest from the date of signature, and immediately thereafter this treaty shall be in all its provisions publicly proclaimed and made known by both Governments in their respective countries, in order that it may be obeyed by their subjects, respectively.

ARTICLE XV.

The Chinese written character being common to both Korea and China, this treaty and future official correspondence shall be made in Chinese for the sake of clearness.

Hst SHOU PENG,

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 200 Rank.
Director of the Imperial Stud. For His Majesty the Em-
peror of China, 7th day, 8th moon, 25th year of Kuang Su.
PAK CHAI SUN,

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs and Councillor of State.
11th Sep-
tember, 1899. 3d year of Kwang Mu.

No. 70.

JAPAN.

PROTOCOL BETWEEN JAPAN AND KOREA.

SIGNED AT SEOUL, FEBRUARY 23, 1904.

M. Gonsuke Hayashi, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty The Emperor of Japan and Major General Yi Chi-Yong, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs ad interim of His Majesty the Emperor of Korea, being respectively duly empowered for the purpose, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ARTICLE I. For the purpose of maintaining a permanent and solid friendship between Japan and Korea and firmly establishing peace in the Far East, the Imperial Government of Korea shall place full confidence in the Imperial Government of Japan, and adopt the advice of the latter in regard to improvements in administration.

ARTICLE II. The Imperial Government of Japan shall in a spirit of firm friendship ensure the safety and repose of the Imperial House of Korea.

ARTICLE III. The Imperial Government of Japan definitively guarantee the independence and territorial integrity of the Korean Empire.

ARTICLE IV. In case the welfare of the Imperial House of Korea or the territorial integrity of Korea is endangered by aggression of a third power or internal disturbances, the Imperial Government of Japan shall immediately take such necessary measures as circumstances require, and in such case the Imperial Government of Korea shall give full facilities to promote the action of the Imperial Japanese Government. The Imperial Government of Japan may for the attainment of the above mentioned object occupy when the circumstances require such places as may be necessary from strategic points of view.

ARTICLE V. The Governments of the two countries shall not in future without mutual consent conclude with a third power such an arrangement as may be contrary to the principles of the present. protocol.

ARTICLE VI. Details in connection with the present Protocol shall be arranged as the circumstances may require between the representative of Japan and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Korea.

HAYASHI.

YI CHI-YONG.

KOREA.

II.

CONTRACTS, CONCESSIONS FOR RAILWAYS, AND MINING, REGULATIONS CONCERNING SAME.

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.

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