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count taken for re-coinage. Coins of all description (with the exception of Japanese cop'per coin) , as well as 
foreign gold and silver uneoined, may be exported from Japan. 
Art. XI. Supplies for the use of the British navy may he landed at Kanagawa, Hakodadi, and Nagasaki, 
arid stored in warehouses, in the custody of an officer of the British government, without the payment of any 
duty; but if any such supplies are sold in Japan , the purchäser shall pay the proper duty to the Japanese 
authorities. 
Art. XII. If any British vessel be at any time wrecked or stranded on the coast of Japan , or be com- 
pelled to take refuge in any port within tbe dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, the Japanese authorities, on 
being apprised of the fact, shall immediately render all the assistance in tlieir power; the persons on board 
shall receive friendly treatment, and be furnished, if necessary, with the means of conveyanee to the nearest 
consular Station. 
Art. XIII. Any British merchant-vessel arriving off one of the open ports of Japan, shall be at liberty 
to hire a pilot to take her into port. In like mariner, after she has discharged all legal dues and duties, and 
is ready to take her departure, she shall be allowed to hire a pilot to conduct her out of port. 
Art. XIV. At each of the ports open to trade, British subjects shall be at full liberty to import from their 
own or any other ports, and seil there, and purchase therein, and export to their own or any other ports, all 
manner of merchandize, not contraband, paying the duties thereon, as laid down in the tariff annexed to the 
present treaty, and no other charges whatsoever. 
With the exception of munitions of war , which shall only be sold to the Japanese government and 
foreigners , tbey may freely buy from Japanese, and seil to them, any articles that either may liave for sale, 
without the intervention of any Japanese officers in such purchase or sale, or in making or receiving payment 
for the same; and all classes of Japanese may purchase, seil, keep, or use any articles sold to them by British 
subjects. 
Art. XV. If the Japanese custom-house officers are dissatisfied with the value placed on any goods by 
the owner, they may place a value thereon, and offer to take the goods at that valuation. If the owner refuses 
to accept the offer, he shall pay duty on such valuation. If the offer be accepted by the owner, the purchase- 
money shall be paid on him without delay, and without any abatement or discount. 
Art. XVI. All goods imported into Japan by British subjects, and which have paid the duty fixed by th is 
treaty, may be transported by the Japanese into any part of the empire without the payment, of any tax, excise, 
or transit duty whatever. 
Art. XVII. British merchants who may have imported merehandise into any open port in Japan, and paid 
duty thereon, shallbe entitled , on obtaining from the Japanese custom-house authorities a certificate, stating 
that such payment has been made, to re-export the same, and land it in any other of the open ports without 
the payment of any additional duty whatever. 
Art. XVIII.. The Japanese authorities at each port will adopt the means that they may judge most proper 
for the prevention of fraud or smuggling. • 
Art. XIX. All penalties enforced , or confiscations made under this treaty, shall belong to, and be appro- 
priated by, the government of his Majesty the Tycoon of Japan. 
Art. XX. The articles for the regulation of trade which are appended to this treaty , shall be considered 
as forming part of the same, and shall be equally binding on both the contracting parties. to this treaty and 
on their subjects. 
The diplomatic agent of Great Britain, in conjunction with such person or persons as may be appointed 
for that purpose by the Japanese government, shall have power to make such rules as may be required to carry 
into full and complete efl’ect the provisions of this treaty, and the provisions of the articles regulating trade 
appended thereto. 
Arti XXI. This treaty being written in the English, Japanese, and Dutch languages, and all the versions 
having the same meaning and intention, the Dutch version shall be considered the original ; but it is understood 
that all official Communications addressed by the diplomatic and consular agents of her Majesty the Queen of 
Great Britain to the. Japanese authorities, shall henceforward be written in English. In Order, however, to facilitate 
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