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the transaction of business, they will, for a period of live years from tbe signature of this treaty, be accompa- 
nied by a Dutch or Japanese Version. 
Art. XXII. It is agreed that eitber of the high contracting parties to this treaty, on giving one year’s 
previous notice to the other, may demand a revision thereof, on or after the first of July , one thousand eight 
hundred and seventy two, with a view to the insertion therein of such amendments as experience shall prove to 
be desirable. 
Art. XXIII. It is hereby expressly stipulated that the British goverhment and its subjects will be allowed 
free and equal participation in all Privileges and advantages, that may have been, or may be hereafter, granted 
by his Majesty the Tycoon of Japan to the government or subjects of any other nation. 
Art. XXIV. The ratification of this treaty, under the band of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and 
under the name and seal of his Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, respectively, shall be exclianged at Yedo, within a 
year from this day of Signatare. 
In token whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this treaty. Done at Yedo, this 
twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, correspouding to the Japanese date the 
eighteenth day of the seventh month of the fifth year of Ansei Tsutsi no uye’mma. 
(L. S.) Eigin and Kincardine. 
Midzuo, Tsikfogo no Kami. 
Nagai, Gemba no Kami. 
Inouwye, Sinano no Kamo. 
Hori, Oribe no Kami. 
Iwase, Gig'o no Kami. 
Isuda Hauzabro. 
Regulations under whicli British Trade is to be conducted in Japan. 
Regulation I. 
Within forty-eight hours (Sundays excepted) after the arrival of a British ship in a Japanese port, the 
captain or commander shall exhibit to the Japanese custom-house authorities the receipt of the British consul, 
showing that he has deposited all the ship’s bills of lading, &c., at the British consulate; and he shall then 
make an entry of his ship, by giving a written paper, stating the name of the ship, and the name of the port 
from which she comes , her tonnage , the name of the captain or commander, the names of her passengers (if 
any), and the num'ber of her crew, which paper shall be certified by the captain or commander to be a true 
Statement, and shall be signed by him; he shall, at the same time, deposit a written manifest of his cargo, 
setting forth the marks and numbers of the packages and their contents , as they are described in his bills of 
lading, with the names of the person or persons to whom they are consigned. A list of the Stores of the ship 
shall be added to the manifest. The captain or commander shall certify the manifest to be a true account of 
all the cargo and stores on board the ship , and shall sign his name to the same. If any error discovered in 
the manifest , it may be corrected within twenty-four hours (Sundays excepted) , without the payment of any 
fee, but for any alteration or post-entry to the manifest made after that time, a fee of fifteen dollars shall be 
paid. All goods not entered on the manifest shall pay double duties on being landed. 
Any captain or commander that shall neglect to enter his vessel at the Japanese custom-house within the 
time prescribed by this regulation, shall pay a penalty of sixty dollars for each day that he shall so neglect to 
enter his ship. 
