Article 3a. — The Japanese subjects referred to in the preceding
two articles, besides being required to register with the local authori-
ties passports which they must procure under the existing regula-
tions, shall also submit to police laws and ordinances and tax
regulations, which are approved by the Japanese Consul. Civil
and criminal cases in which the defendants are Chinese shall be
tried and adjudicated by Chinese authorities. In either case an
officer can 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 con-
jointly in accordance with Chinese law and local usage. When
the judicial system in the said region is completely reformed, all
civil and criminal cases concerning Japanese subjects shall be tried
entirely by Chinese law courts.
Article 4.— (Changed to an exchange of Notes.)

The Chinese Government agrees that Japanese subjects shall
be permitted forthwith to investigate, select, and then prospect
for and open mines at the following places in South Manchuria,
apart from those mining areas in which mines are being prospected
for or worked ; until the Mining Ordinance is definitely settled
methods at present in force shall be followed.
Province of Feng-Tien.
Locality.
District.
Mineral.
Niu Hsin T'ai


Pen-hsi


Coal


Tien Shih Fu Kou


Pen-hsi


9>


Sha Sung Kang


Hai-lung


37


T'ieh Ch'ang


T'ung-hua


JJ


Nuan Ti T'ang


Chin


5S


An Shan Chan region


From Liao-yang
to Per-hsi


Iron



THE TWENTY-ONE DEMANDS

Province of Kirin
{Southern portion).
157



Locality.
District.
