No published collection of treaties that we remember to have seen, contains the following agreement fixing the rate of transit dues under the treaty of Nanking. OF course it is obsolete now, but we reprint it as a curio. In the treaty itself, the amount was Jeff blank. This doctiment fixes it.
Whereas by the tenth Article of the Treaty between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, concluded and signed on board Her Britannic Majesty's ship 'Cornwallis,' at nking, on the 29th day of August, 1842, corresponding with the Chinese date 24th day of the 7th month, in the 22nd year of Taoukwang, it is stipulated and agreed, that His Majesty tne Emperor of China shall establish at all the ports which by the second Article of the said Treaty, are to be thrown open for the resort of British merchants, a fair and regular Tariff of exports and import customs and other dues 5 which Tariff shall be publicly notified and promulgated for general information
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.