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Art. IX. Free exercise is allo.wed to tlie Portugiese subjects residing at Japan, of the professions of their 
religion and liberty is granted them to construct buildings appropriate to tlieir mode of worship. 
Art. X. All foreign coins shall be considered as a currency in Japan and their value will be regulated 
by an equal weight of Japanese coins of same metal. Both the Portugiese and the Japanese subjets will be 
allowed the free use of foreign coins or Japanese ones in payments to each other respectively. 
Every kind of coins (excepting the Japanese copper one) and foreign gold and silver not coined , are 
allowed to be exported from Japan. 
Art. XI. Stores intended for the use of the Portugiese vessels of War can be landed and stored in the 
ports of Kanagawa , Hakodadi , and Nagasaki , under the control of the Portugiese authorities , free of duties : 
should any of the articles however be disposed of in Japan, the purchaser must pay the Japanese authorities 
the respective duties. 
Art, XII. In case of wreck of any Portuguese vessel on the coast of Japan, or of any one ffnding shelter 
in any port of the dominions of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, the Japanese authorities, on obtaining Infor- 
mation of the same, will be found to render such vessel all and every assistance in their power; and to receive 
and treat in a friendly manner the crew, and in case of need forward them to the nearest Consul. 
Art. XIII. Any Portugiese vessel on nearing the ports open to trade in Japan can engage Japanese pilots 
to take the same into port. In similar manner vessels having paid their dues and complied with other regula- 
tions of port and being ready to depart, can engage Japanese pilots to take them out of port. 
Art. XIV. ln all ports open to trade in Japan the Portuguese subjects are allowed the free permission to 
import from its own ports or from any foreign ports, and to seil, buy, and export all kind of Merchandise, pro- 
vided it be legal Merchandise , upon payment of duties as per tariff annexed to the present treaty, 1 subject to 
no further elaim. 
Implements of war can only be disposed of to the Japanese Government or to foreigners. 
Every other Merchandize can be bought of or sold out to the Japanese without the Intervention of the 
Japanese officials either in the purchases, the sales or the payments for them. And the Japanese have the liberty 
to buy, seil and use any articles that may be sold to them by the Portuguese. 
Art. XV. In case the Custom House officials be not satisfied with the value given them of the goods by 
their owmers, they have the power to attach to them their own valuation, tendering to retain the said goods 
at such valuation. The owners declining the tender shall be bound to pay the duties accordirig to the Custom 
House valuation; on their accepting it, however, they will be satisfied with the amount at once, free of duty 
or rather without any abatement. 
Art. XVI. All goods imported by the Portuguese subjects into Japan and upon which the duties fixed by 
this treaty shall have been paid , are allowed to be conveyed by the Japanese to any part of the Empire free 
of any further payment, either in the way of regulär duty, permit duty or transit duty. 
Art. XVII. The Portuguese importers of goods into ports of Japan open to trade, and on which respec- 
tive duties have once been paid, have the liberty to re-export the same from one port to another also opened 
to trade in Japan without payment of any additional duty, being under the Charge of the Custom House to fur- 
nish them with a certificate shewing that the duties chargeable on such goods have already been paid at such 
port or ports. 
Art. XVIII. The Japanese authorities at the different ports opened to trade, may adopt such measures as 
they may think most advantageous to stop smuggling or frauds on the revenue. 
Art. XIX. All penalties and forfeitures imposed on the Portuguese subjects by virtue of this treaty, shall 
by right appertain to the Government of the Emperor of Japan. 
1 Dieser Tarif, so wie die Bestimmungen, unter welchen der Handel mit Japan erlaubt ist (Artikel XX) sind 
vollkommen mit den, mit den übrigen fremden Mächten getroffenen, bereits mitgetheilten Vereinbarungen gleich- 
lautend, daher wir deren Abdruck unterlassen. 
