TREATY—CHINA. Novmmnn 17, 1880. 827 Anrrcnn II. Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, Chinese substudents, merchants or from curiosity, together with their body and 5*** in "h° Unmd household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United St°’m°‘ States shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation. Anrromz III. If Chinese laborers, or Chinese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in the territory of the United States, p,.T:5:g,;°g:·_ nd meet with ill treatment at the hands of any other persons, the Government of the United States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection and to secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and to which they are entitled by treaty. Aucrroma IV. The high contracting Powers having agreed upon the foregoing arti- F,,,,,,.,, 16g,,,,} cles, whenever the Government of the United States shall adopt legisla- tion. tive measures in accordance therewith, such measures will be communicated to the Government of China. If the measures as enacted are found to work hardship upon the subjects of China, the Chinese Minister at Washington may bring the matter to the notice of the Secretary of State of the United States, who will consider the subject with him; and the Chinese Foreign Office may also bring the matter to the notice of the United States Minister at Peking and consider the subject with him, to the end that mutual and unqualified benefit may result. In faith whereof the respective Pleuipotentiaries have signed and sealed the foregoing at Peking, in English and Chinese being three originals of each text of even tenor and date, the ratiiications of which shall be exchanged at Peking within one year from date of its execution. Done at Peking, this seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1880. Kuanghsii, sixth year, tenth moon, fifteenth day. ‘ Jnms B. ANGELL. sun. signatures. Jomw F. Swrrr. smh. Wm. Hmmv Tnuscocr. san., Pho Cniiiv. SEAL. Lt HUNGTSAO. s11A;..] And whereas the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts and Proclamation. the respective ratiiications were exchanged at Peking on the 19th day of July 1881: · Now, therefore, be it known that I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause 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 atlixed. Done in Washington this fifth 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. gun.] CHESTER A. ARTHUR. · y the President: Jams G. Buren, . Secretary of State.
