856 PROTOCOL-JAPAN. N ovmmnrm 22, 1894. in Tokio, or from the Chief Authorities in the Prefecture in which an open port is situated, it being understood that the existing Rules and · Regulations governing citizens of the United States who visit the inte- _ rior of the Empire are to be maintained. R"’"&°““°“‘ 3. The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed that this Protocol shall be submitted to the two High Contracting Parties at the same time as the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed this day, and that when the said Treaty is ratified the agreements contained in the Protocol shall also equally be considered as approved, without the _ necessity of a further formal ratification. T°"'“‘““'”°“‘ It is agreed that this Protocol shall terminate at the same time the said Treaty ceases to be binding. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the _ same and have aflixed thereto their seals. S‘g"“*“’°" Done at Washingtoii the 22d day of November in the eighteen hundred and ninety-fourth year of the Christian era, corresponding to the 22d day of the 11th month of the 27th year of Meiji. WALTER Q. GBESHAM [snare] Snrmomno Krmmo [ssrn.] And whereas, it was stipulated in the said Protocol that it should be submitted to the two High Contracting Parties at the same time as the said Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, and that when the said . Treaty should be ratified, the agreements contained in the Protocol, should also equally be considered as approved, without the necessity of a further formal ratification; And, whereas, the said Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, as amended, has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratification: thereof were exchanged at the City of Washington on the 21st day of _ March 1895; P’°°L°““““°”· Now, therefore, be it known that I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Protocol 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 of America and the citizens thereof. . In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done in the City of “v3»SlllDgl30ll this twenty-first day March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and nineteenth. GROVER CLEVELAND By the President: Wnzrna Q. Gansnnr Secretcory vg` State.
