JAPANESE TEEATY. 



The United States of America and the Empire of Japan, desiring to establish firm, lasting, 

 and sincere friendship between the two nations, have resolved to fix, in a manner clear and 

 positive, by means of a treaty or general convention of peace and amity, the rules which shall 

 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 Kevenue. 



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

 considered the premises, have agreed to the following articles : 



AKTICLE 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 such 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 



