394 MATTHEW C. PERRY. 



"II, The port of Simoda, in the principality of 

 Idzu, and the port of Hakodadi, in the principality 

 of Matsmai, are granted by the Japanese as ports 

 for the reception of American ships, where they can 

 be supplied with wood, water, provisions, and coal, 

 and other articles their necessities may require, as 

 far as the Japanese have them. The time for open- 

 ing the first-named port is immediately on signing 

 this treaty; the last-named port is to be opened 

 immediately after the same day in the ensuing 

 Japanese year. 



"NoTE. A tariff of prices shall be given by the 

 Japanese officers of the things which they can fur- 

 nish, payment for which shall be made in gold and 

 silver coin. 



"III. Whatever ships of the United States are 

 thrown or wrecked on the coast of Japan, the Ja- 

 panese vessels will assist them and carry their crews 

 to Simoda or Hakodadi, and hand them over to 

 their countrymen appointed to receive them. What- 

 ever articles the shipwrecked men may have pre- 

 served shall likewise be restored, and the expenses 

 incurred in the rescue and support of American 

 and Japanese, who may thus be thrown upon the 

 shores of either nation, are not to be refunded. 



"IV". Those shipwrecked persons and other citi- 

 zens of the United States shall be free as in other 



