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  Speaker 1: Appendix two of an Outline History of Japan. This is
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  Speaker 1: An Outline History of Japan by Herbert Henry Gowen, Appendix two.
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  Speaker 1: First Treaty between Japan and the United States eighteen fifty four.
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  Speaker 1: Treaty of Peace, Amity, and Commerce, Concluded March thirty first,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen fifty four. Ratification advised by the Senate July fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen fifty four. Ratified by the President August seventh, eighteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty four. Ratifications exchanged February twenty first, eighteen fifty five.
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  Speaker 1: Proclaimed June twenty second, eighteen fifty five. Articles one Peace
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  Speaker 1: and Amity two Opening of Simuda and Hakkurade, three shipwrecks, four,
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  Speaker 1: Treatment of shipwrecked persons five shipwrecked persons at Simoda and Hakurade,
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  Speaker 1: six business, seven trade, eight supplies to vessels, nine most
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  Speaker 1: favored Nation privileges, ten open ports, eleven consuls, twelve ratifications.
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  Speaker 1: The United States of America and the Empire of Japan
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  Speaker 1: desiring to establish firm, lasting and sincere friendship between the
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  Speaker 1: two nations have resolved to fix, in a manner clear
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  Speaker 1: and positive, by means of a treaty or general convention
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  Speaker 1: of peace and amity, the rules which shall in the
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  Speaker 1: future mutually observed in the intercourse of their respective countries
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  Speaker 1: for which most desirable object. The President of the United
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  Speaker 1: States has conferred full powers on his Commissioner, Matthew Calbraith Perry,
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  Speaker 1: Special Ambassador of the United States to Japan, and the
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  Speaker 1: August Sovereign of Japan has given similar full powers to
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  Speaker 1: his commissioners Hayashi Daigaku no kami Ido, Prince of Sushima, Izawa,
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  Speaker 1: Prince of Mimasaki, and Uduno member of the Board of Revenue.
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  Speaker 1: And the said commissioners, after having exchanged their said full
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  Speaker 1: powers and duly considered the premises, have agreed to the
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  Speaker 1: following articles. Article one, There shall be a perfect, permanent
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  Speaker 1: and universal peace and a sincere and cordial amiti between
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America on the one part, and
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  Speaker 1: the Empire of Japan on the other part, and between
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  Speaker 1: their people, respectively, without exception of persons or places. Article two.
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  Speaker 1: The port of Simoda in the Principality of Izu and
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  Speaker 1: the Port of Hakodad in the principality of Matsumai are
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  Speaker 1: granted by the Japanese as ports for the reception of
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  Speaker 1: American ships, where they can be supplied with wood, water, provisions,
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  Speaker 1: and coal and other articles their necessities may require, as
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  Speaker 1: far as the Japanese have them. The time for opening
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  Speaker 1: the first named port is immediately on signing this treaty.
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  Speaker 1: The last named port is to be opened immediately after
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  Speaker 1: the same day in the ensuing Japanese year. Note a
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  Speaker 1: tariff of prices shall be given by the Japanese of
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  Speaker 1: lads of the things which they can furnish, payment for
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  Speaker 1: which shall be made in gold and silver coin. Article three.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever ships of the United States are thrown or wrecked
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  Speaker 1: on the coast of Japan, the Japanese vessels will assist
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  Speaker 1: them and carry their crews to Simuda or Hakodad and
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  Speaker 1: hand them over to their countrymen appointed to receive them.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever articles the shipwrecked men may have preserved shall likewise
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  Speaker 1: be restored, and the expenses incurred in the rescue and
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  Speaker 1: support of Americans and Japanese who may thus be thrown
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  Speaker 1: upon the shores of either nation are not to be refunded.
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  Speaker 1: Article four. Those shipwrecked persons and other citizens of the
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  Speaker 1: United States shall be free as in other countries and
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  Speaker 1: not subjected to confinement, but shall be amenable to just laws.
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  Speaker 1: Article five. Shipwrecked men and other citizens of the United
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  Speaker 1: States temporarily living at Simoda and Hakodade shall not be
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  Speaker 1: subject to such restrictions and confinement as the Dutch and
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  Speaker 1: Chinese are at Nagasaki, but shall be free at Simoda
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  Speaker 1: to go where they please within the limits of seven
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  Speaker 1: Japanese miles or ri from a small island in the
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  Speaker 1: harbor of Simoda marked on the accompanying chart. Hereto appended
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  Speaker 1: an in like manner shall be free to go where
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  Speaker 1: they please at Hakkorad, within limits to be defined after
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  Speaker 1: the visit of the United States Squadron to that place.
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  Speaker 1: Article six. If there be any other sort of goods wanted,
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  Speaker 1: or any business which shall require to be arranged, there
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  Speaker 1: shall be careful deliberation between the parties in order to
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  Speaker 1: settle such matters. Article seven. It is agreed that ships
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  Speaker 1: of the United States resorting to the ports open to
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  Speaker 1: them shall be permitted to exchange gold and silver coin
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  Speaker 1: and articles of goods for other articles of goods under
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  Speaker 1: such regulations as shall be temporarily established by the Japanese
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  Speaker 1: government for that purpose. It is stipulated, however, that the
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  Speaker 1: ships of the United States shall be permitted to carry
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  Speaker 1: away whatever articles they are unwilling to exchange. Article eight. Wood,
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  Speaker 1: water provisions, coal, and goods required shall only be procured
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  Speaker 1: through the agency of Japanese officers appointed for that purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and in no other manner. Article nine. It is agreed
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  Speaker 1: that if at any future day the Government of Japan
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  Speaker 1: shall grant to any other nation or nations privileges and
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  Speaker 1: advantages which are not herein granted to the United States
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  Speaker 1: and the citizens thereof, that these same privileges and advantages
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  Speaker 1: shall be granted likewise to the United States and to
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  Speaker 1: the citizens thereof, without any consultation or delay. Article ten.
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  Speaker 1: Ships of the United States shall be permitted to resort
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  Speaker 1: to no other ports in Japan but Simoda and Hakuraate,
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  Speaker 1: unless in distress or forced by stress of weather. Article eleven.
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  Speaker 1: There shall be appointed by the Government of the United
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  Speaker 1: States consuls or agents to reside in Simoda at any
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  Speaker 1: time after the expiration of eighteen months from the date
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  Speaker 1: of the signing of this treaty, provided that either of
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  Speaker 1: the two governments deem such arrangement necessary. Article twelve. The
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  Speaker 1: present Convention, having been concluded and duly assigned, shall be
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  Speaker 1: obligatory and faithfully observed by the United States of America
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  Speaker 1: and Japan, and by the citizens and subjects of each
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  Speaker 1: respective power. And it is to be ratified and approved
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  Speaker 1: by the President of the United States, by and with
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  Speaker 1: the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by
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  Speaker 1: the August Suffeign of Japan. And the ratification shall be
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  Speaker 1: exchanged within eighteen months from the date of the signature thereof,
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  Speaker 1: or sooner if practicable in faith. Whereof we the respective
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  Speaker 1: plenty potentiaries of the United States of America and the
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  Speaker 1: Empire of Japan aforesaid, have signed and sealed these presents,
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  Speaker 1: done at Kanagawa this thirty first day of March, in
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  Speaker 1: the year of our Lord Jesus Christ one thousand, eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four. End of Kaye the seventh year,
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  Speaker 1: third month and third day. M. C. Perry, end of
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  Speaker 1: Appendix two.