(2.) Certificate appended to the Treaty of Tien-tsin by the Prince of Kung. October 24, 1860. (Translation.) THE Prince of Kung, Commissioner and Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ta Tsing Dynasty, hereby executes a Certificate: "Be it known, that the impression of the Hwang Ti-chi P'au' (the 5th of the 25 seals of the Empire), which has been reverentially affixed to the foregoing Treaty, the same being the Treaty of Peace concluded at Tien-tsin in the year wu-wu (1858), is an attestation of the full assent of His Majesty the Emperor of China to, and his promise to abide by, all the Articles therein, and renders unnecessary any separate authorization by the Imperial signature. "This Certificate is accordingly appended to this Treaty, to serve as a record for evermore. "Executed at Peking on the 11th day of the 9th moon, in the 10th year of the reign Hien-fung (24th October, 1860)." (3.) Minute relative to the temporary occupation by the French and English Forces of the Shan-tung Promontory. Tien-tsin, November 14, 1860. (Translation.) AGREED that the Shan-tung Promontory shall be held in terms of the Convention of Peking of this year, as follows, viz.: 1. That the port of Che-foo shall be held by a French force, naval or military, as convenient. 2. That the Miatau Islands shall be held by an English force, naval or military, as convenient. 3. That such occupation shall cease when the indemnities due by the Chinese Government are paid, or sooner if the French and English Governments shall determine. Given at Tien-tsin, the 14th November, 1860. J. HOPE GRANT, Lieutenant- J. HOPE, Vice-Admiral and Le Général Commandant-en- BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, for enabling Her Majesty's Subjects to enter the Military and Naval Service of the Emperor of China with certain British Officers. August 30, 1862.* At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of August, 1862. PRESENT, THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the 59th year of the reign of His late Majesty King George III, intituled "An Act to prevent the enlisting or engagement of His Majesty's subjects to serve in Foreign service, and the fitting out or equipping in His Majesty's dominions vessels for warlike purposes, without His Majesty's licence;"† it was enacted and declared, that if any naturalborn subject of His Majesty, His heirs and successors, without the leave or licence of His Majesty, His heirs or successors, for that purpose first had and obtained under the sign manual of His Majesty, His heirs or successors, or signified by Order in Council, or by Proclamation of His Majesty, His heirs or successors, should take or accept, or should agree to take or accept, any military commission, or should otherwise enter into the military service as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer, or should enlist or enter himself to enlist, or should agree to enlist or to enter himself to serve as a soldier, or to be employed, or should serve in any warlike or military operation, in the service of or for or under or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, either as an officer or soldier, or in any other military capacity; or if any natural-born subject of His Majesty should, without such leave or licence as aforesaid, accept, or agree to take or accept, any commission, warrant, or appointment as an officer, or should enlist or enter himself, or should agree to enlist or enter himself, to serve as a sailor or marine, or so be employed or engaged, or should serve in and on board any ship or vessel of war, or in and on board any ship or vessel used or fitted out, or equipped or intended to be used, for any warlike purpose, in the service of or for or under or in aid of any Foreign Power, Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People; or if any natural-born subject of His Majesty Extended by Order in Council, January 9, 1863. See Page 683. † See Vol. 10, Page 162. should, without such leave and licence as aforesaid, engage, contract, or agree to go, or should go to any Foreign State, Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or to any place beyond the seas, with an intent or in order to enlist or enter himself to serve, or with intent to serve in any warlike or military operation whatever, whether by land or by sea in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, either as an officer or a soldier, or in any other military capacity, or as an officer or sailor, or marine, in any such ship or vessel as aforesaid, although no enlisting money, or pay, or reward shall have been or should be, in any or either of the cases aforesaid, actually paid to or received by him, or by any person to or for his use or benefit; or if any person whatever, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any part of His Majesty's dominions elsewhere, or in any country, Colony, settlement, island, or place belonging to or subject to His Majesty, should hire, retain, engage, or procure, or should attempt or endeavour to hire, retain, engage, or procure, any person or persons whatever to enlist, or to enter or engage to enlist, or to serve or to be employed in any such service or employment as aforesaid, as an officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, either in land or sea service, for or under or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or for or under or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of government as aforesaid, or to go, or to agree to go or embark from any part of His Majesty's dominions, for the purpose or with intent to be so enlisted, entered, engaged, or employed as aforesaid, whether any enlisting money, pay, or reward, should have been, or should be actually given or received, or not; in any or either of such cases, every person so offending should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon being convicted thereof, upon any information or indictment, should be punishable by fine or imprisonment, as in the said Act is mentioned: And that if any person in any part of the United Kingdom, or in any part of His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, should, without the leave and licence of His Majesty for that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or attempt or endeavour to equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or should knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship or vessel, with intent or in order that such ship or vessel should be employed in the service of any Foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or of any Foreign Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of government in or over any Foreign State, Colony, Province, or any part of any Province or People, as a transport or storeship, or with intent to cruise or commit hostilities against any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against the subjects or citizens of any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against the person exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in any Colony, Province, or part of any Province or Country, or against the inhabitants of any Foreign Colony, Province, or part of any Province or Country with whom His Majesty should not then be at war; or should, within the United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's Dominions, or in any settlement, Colony, territory, island, or place belonging or subject to his Majesty, issue or deliver any commission for any ship or vessel, to the intent that such ship or vessel should be employed as aforesaid, every such person so offending should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and should, upon conviction thereof, upon any information or indictment, be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of the Court in which such offender should be convicted; and every such ship or vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores which may belong to or be on board of any such ship or vessel, should be forfeited; and it should be lawful for any officer of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or any officer of His Majesty's Navy, who is by law empowered to make seizures for any forfeiture incurred under any of the laws of Customs or Excise, or the laws of trade and navigation, to seize such ships and vessels aforesaid, and in such places and in such manner in which the officers of His Majesty's Customs or Excise and the officers of His Majesty's Navy are empowered respectively to make seizures, under the laws of Customs and Excise, or under the laws of trade and navigation; and that every such ship and vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores, which may belong to or be on board of such ship or vessel, may be prosecuted and condemned in the like manner, and in such Courts as ships or vessels may be prosecuted and condemned for any breach of the laws made for the protection of the revenues of Customs and Excise, or of the laws of trade and navigation : Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, being desirous of enabling Her subjects to engage in and enter the naval and military service of the Emperor of China, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the first day of September next, it shall be lawful for Horatio Nelson Lay, one of Her Majesty's subjects, and Sherard Osborn, a Captain in Her Majesty's Navy, to enter into the military and naval service of the said Emperor, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appointment under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for their services, and to fit out, equip, purchase, and acquire ships or vessels of war for the use of the said Emperor, and to engage and enlist British subjects to enter the military and naval service of the said Emperor. And it is hereby further ordered that it shall be lawful for every British subject to enlist and enter himself by engaging and enlisting himself with the said Horatio Nelson Lay and Sherard Osborn, and no other person or persons whatsoever, in the military and naval service of the said Emperor, and to serve the said Emperor in any military, warlike, or other operations, either by land or by sea, and for that purpose to go to any place or places beyond the seas, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appointment from or under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for his service: Provided always, that the licence and permission hereby given shall be in force only for the term of 2 years from the said 1st day of September next, unless, by Order in Council made in manner aforesaid, such period should be further extended. ARTHUR HELPS. NOTIFICATIONS and Regulations relative to British Trade on the Yang-tsze River. January, 1861-November, 1862. (1.) Notification of the Earl of Elgin. Hong Kong, January 20, 1861. THE Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., G.C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Special Ambassador in China, &c., &c., hereby makes it known to Her Majesty's subjects in China, that Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary the Honourable F. W. A. Bruce and the Imperial Commissioner the Prince of Kung have concluded an arrangement for opening to British trade, at the earliest practicable period, 2 ports on the Yang-tsze River above Chin-kiang. His Excellency the naval Commander-in-Chief has been requested to adopt such measures as he may deem necessary in order to enable Her Majesty's subjects to take advantage of the privilege conferred on British shipping by the arrangement in question, and as soon as the object which he has in view shall have been attained, notice will be given of the regulations under which trade on the river above Chin-kiang will be conducted. The Earl of Elgin thinks, however, that it may be a convenience to Her Majesty's subjects in China if he apprizes them, at this early date, that the following are the conditions on which those regulations will be framed : Tonnage dues as well as duties, whether of import or export, |