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in future be mutually observed in the intercourse of their respective countries ; for -which most 

 desirable object the President of the United States has conferred full powers on his commissioner^ 

 Matthew Calbraith Perry, special ambassador of the United States to Japan ; and the august 

 sovereign of Japan has given similar full powers to his commissioners, Hayashi-Daigaku-no- 

 kami, Ido, Prince of Tsus-Sima, Izawa, Prince of Mimasaki, and Udono, member of the 

 Board of Revenue. 



And the said commissioners, after having exchanged their said full powers, and duly 

 considered the premises, have agreed to the following articles : 



ARTICLE I. 



There shall be a perfect, permanent, and universal peace, and a sincere and cordial amity, 

 between the United States of America, on the one part, and the Empire of Japan on the other, 

 and between their people, respectively, without exception of persons or places. 



ARTICLE 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 opening 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 

 furnish, payment for which shall be made in gold and silver coin. 



ARTICLE III. 



Whenever ships of the United States are thrown or wrecked on the coast of Japan, the 

 Japanese vessels will assist them, and carry their crews to Simoda or Hakodadi, and hand them 

 over to their countrymen appointed to receive them. Whatever articles the shipwrecked men 

 may have preserved shall likewise be restored, and the expenses incurred in the rescue and 

 support of Americans and Japanese who may thus be thrown upon the shores of either nation 

 are not to be refunded. 



ARTICLE IV. 



Those shipwrecked persons and other citizens of the United States shall be free as in other 

 countries, and not subjected to confinement, but shall be amenable to just laws. 



ARTICLE V. 



Shipwrecked men, and other citizens of the United States, temporarily living at Simoda and 

 Hakodadi, shall not be subject to sirch restrictions and confinement as the Dutch and Chinese 

 are at Nagasaki ; but shall be free at Simoda to go where they please within the limits of seven 

 Japanese miles (or ri) from a small island in the harbor of Simoda, marked on the accompa- 

 nying chart, hereto appended ; and shall in like manner be free to go where they plea.se at 

 Hakodadi, within limits to be defined after the visit of the United States squadron to that place. 



ARTICLE VI. 



If there be any other sort of goods wanted, or any business which shall require to be 

 arranged, there shall be careful deliberation between the parties in order to settle such matters. 



