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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2022
The commissioners named by the President of the French Republic and by His Majesty the Emperor of China, in execution of Article 3 of the Treaty of 9 June 1885, for the surveying of the border between China and Tonkin, have finished their work:
M. Ernest Constans, Deputy [of the National Assembly], former minister of the interior and of faiths, government commissioner, special envoy of the Republic of France, on the one hand;
And His Highness Prince Qing, Prince of the second rank, president of the Zongli Yamen, assisted by
His Excellency Sun Yuwen, member of the Zongli Yamen, first vice- president of the ministry of public works, on the other hand;
Acting in the name of their respective governments:
Have decided to record in the present act the following arrangements for the purpose of definitively settling the delimitation of the said border:—
1. The minutes and the maps annexed hereto, which have been drawn up and signed by the French and Chinese commissioners are and shall remain approved.
2. Those points in the accord on which the two commissions could not agree, and the corrections envisaged by the second paragraph of Article 3 of the Treaty of 9 June 1885, are settled as follows:
In Guangdong, it is agreed that the contested points situated to the east and northeast of Mangjie [Monkai], beyond the border as was fixed by the delimitation commission, are assigned to China. The isles which are to the east of the meridian of 105° 43’ longitude east of Paris, which is to say of the north-south line passing through the eastern point of the island of Chagu [Tch’a-Kou or Ouan-chan (Tra-co)] and forming the border, are similarly assigned to China. The Jiutou [Go-tho] islands and other islands which are to the west of this meridian belong to Annam.
Chinese guilty or accused of crimes or offences who seek refuge in these islands, shall, in conformity to the stipulations in Article XVH of the Treaty of 25 April 1886, be sought out, arrested and extradited by the French authorities.
On the border of Yunnan, it is agreed that the line of demarcation follow the following path:
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