GOTTINGUE, LIBRAIRIE DE DIETERICH
ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, FRANCE , GRANDE-BRE- TAGNE, JAPON , PAYS-BAS , PRUSSE.
Convention pour régler les conditions municipales, politiques et juridictionelles de la ville de Yokohama, signée à Yédo, le 28 octobre 1867; suivie de l'approbation du Gouvernement japonais en date du 27 décembre 1867.
Trattati e Convenzioni, Vol. V. p. 113. Convention.
Yedo, october 28th 1867.
The undersigned , having met to consider the mémorial of the land renters at Yokohama to the foreign représentatives, dated July 15, 1867, requesting that the Japanese government may be called on to résume the control and management of the municipal affairs of the foreign seulement of^lfokokama, have agreed to recommend to the Japanese governement the adoption of the following measures as being essential, under présent circumstances, to ensure the maintenance of order and health within the said foreign settlement:
1. ° That an office, to be called land and police office, be formed under the Japanese governement at Yokokama, and placed in charge of a foreign director, who will be subordinate to the governor of Kanagawa.
2. ° The said director acting under the authority of the governor of Kanagawa, shall see to the repair, cleanliness, and officiency of ail the streets and drains in the foreign settlement of Yokohama. He shall be authorised to receive such complaints relative to police or the state of drains and thorough fares, as may properly be addressed by foreigners to the local government direct, and in the name of the governor of Kanagawa will prosecute foreigners before their own authorities for nuisances or any infringement of public order.
3. ° The said director , acting under the authority of the governor of Kanagawa, will have the charge and the direction of ail foreigners who may be employed as police for the maintenance of security and order within the foreign settlement of Yokokama, or for the repression of disorderly conduct on the part of foreigners within the port of Kanagawa. Whenever a subject or citizen of a Treaty Power is arrested in the commission of an offence by the said director, or any foreigner or Japanese acting under his orders , or the order s of the governor of Kanagawa , the person arrested must be conveyed at once to the consul of his nation, who will take steps for the détention of the offender until he can be prosecuted.
Etats-Unis, France, Japon, etc.
4. °*) The governor of Kanagawa acting with the advice and assistance of the said director , and with such advice as he may obtain from foreign consuls, will exercise jurisdiction both criminal and civil over the subjects of China!, and the subjects and citizens of other non-Treaty Powers, residing within the said settlement, or within the port of Kanagawa.
5. ° The land rents payable by foreigners will be collected by the said director, as soon as they become due, for and on account of the governor of Kanagawa, and the said director, acting in the name of the governor of Kanagawa, will be empowered to sue foreigners for default of payment before their own authorities.
6. ° The undersigned undertake to instruct their respective consuls to confine within the narrowest limits compatible with public convenience, the number of licences issued by them to their respective subjects or citizens, as sellers of foreign spirits or liquors, or as keepers of houses of entertainment within the settlement , or within the port of Kanagawa. A copy of every license will be furnished by the consul, as soon as it is issued , to the governor of Kanagawa , and the said director will inform against any person who sells liquors or keeps a house entertainment without the license of his authorities.
7. ° The Japanese government will make arrangements for the safe storage, at reasonables rates , of gunpowder or other explosive substances imported into the port of Kanagawa, and the undersigned will take the necessary steps to prevent their respective subjects or citizens from using any other place for the storage of thèse dangerous substances.
Harry S. Parlées.
