The two High Contracting Parties agree that the term of
lease of Port Arthur and Dalny and the terms of the South
Manchuria Railway and the Antung-Mukden Railway, shall be extended
to 99 years.
Art. 2. Japanese subjects in South Manchuria may, by negotiation,
lease land necessary for erecting suitable buildings for trade and
manufacture or for prosecuting agricultural enterprises.
Art. 3. Japanese subjects shall be free to reside and travel in
South Manchuria and to engage in business and manufacture of any
kind whatsoever.
Art. 4. In the event of Japanese and Chinese desiring jointly to
undertake agricultural enterprises and industries incidental
thereto, the Chinese Government may give its permission.
Art. 5. The Japanese subjects referred to in the preceding three
articles, besides being required to register with the local
Authorities passports which they must procure under the existing
regulations, shall also submit to the police laws and ordinances
and taxation of China.
Civil and criminal cases in which the defendants are Japanese
shall be tried and adjudicated by the Japanese Consul: those in
which the defendants are Chinese shall be tried and adjudicated by
Chinese Authorities. In either case an officer may be deputed to
the court to attend the proceedings. But mixed civil cases between
Chinese and Japanese relating to land shall be tried and
adjudicated by delegates of both nations conjointly in accordance
with Chinese law and local usage.
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