816 CONVENTION-JAPAN. MAY 17, 1880. of official correspondence. Such expenses shall be borne by the Govern ment of the country to which such officers, police and local functionaries belong. Rm:icarion,&c. This convention shall be ratified by the respective Governments in due form of law, and the ratilications shall be exchanged at Wasliington as soon as may he. It shall take eifect in the respective countries thirty days after the Exchange of said ratitications. In witness whereof the respective Plcnipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their signatures and seals. Done, in duplicate in the English and Japanese languages at the city of Tokio, Japan, this 17th day of May in the year 1880, (17th day of the 5th month of the 13th year Meiji). Signatures. JOHN A. BINGHAM. SEAL. INOUYE KAOBU. {ssrn.} And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified and the respective ratiiieations of the same were exchanged in the city of Washington on the 16th day of June, 1881: Prgclguggtigm Now, therefore, be it known that I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the city of Washington this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixth. gnu.] CHESTER A. ARTHUR. y the President: · Jnms G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. O O
