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CONVENTION WITH CHINA. NOVEMBER 8, 1858. 1069 Omwention between the Zbzited States and O'/tina or the Re ulalion 0 No Trade. Ooncluded November 8, {S58. g f NVHEREAS a treaty of peace, amity, and commerce between the Ta pmmbis Tsing Empire and the United States of America was concluded at Tientsiu, and signed at the Temple of Hai-Kwang on the eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- eight, corresponding with the eighth day of the fifth moon of the eighth year of Hienfung: which said treaty was duly ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of China on the third day of July following, and which has been now transmitted for ratihcation by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate: and whereas in the said treaty it was provided among other things that the tariff of duties to be paid by citizens of the United States on the export and import of goods from and into China shall be the same as was agreed upon at the treaty of Wang-hia, except so far as it may be modified by treaties with other nations, it being expressly agreed that citizens of the United States shall never pay higher duties than those paid by the most favored nations: and whereas since the signature of the said treaty material modifications of the said tariff and other matters of detail connected with and having relation to the said treaty have been made under mutual discussions by commissioners appointed to that end by the Plenipotentiaries of China, Great Britain, and France, to which the assent of the United States of America is desired and now freely given, it has been determined to record such assent and agreement in the form of a supplementary 'treaty, to be as binding and of the same efficacy as though they had been inserted in the original treaty. Aurromc I. The tariff and regulations of trade and transithereunto 3-,,-;;;,,,,,,, attached, bearing the seals of the respective Plenipotentiaries of the ¤¢f¤ch¢d.t»b¤ United States and the Ta Tsing Empire, shall henceforward and until °“f°'°°d‘ duly altered under the provisions of treaties be in force at the ports and places open to commerce. In faith whereof the respectivePlenipotentiaries of the United States (zoumwsng of America and of the Ta Tsing Empire, to wit, on the part of the United Pmi°~¤~ States, William B. Reed, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary; and on the part of the Ta Tsing Empire Kweiliang, a member of the Privy Council, Captain·General of the Plain White Banner Division of the Manchu Bannermen, and Superintendent of the Board of Punishments; and Hwashana, Classical Reader at Banquets, President of the Board of Civil Office, Captain-General of the Bordered Blue Banner Division of the Chinese Bannermen, both of them Plenipotentiaries; with Ho Kwei·tsing, Governor-General of the two Kiang Provinces, President of the Board of War, and Guardian of the Heir-Apparent; Mingshen, President of the Ordnance Ofhce of the Imperial Household, with the Insignia of the Second Grade; and Twan, a titular President of the Fifth Grade, member of the Establishment of the General Couneil, and one of the junior under Secretaries of the Board of Punishments, all of them special Imperial Commissioners deputed for the purpose, have signed and sealed these presents. _ Done at Shanghai this eighth day of November, in the year of our Sig,,,;",,, Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and the Independence