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  XXXIV.—	Traité entre la France et le Siam, signé à Luang-Prabang le 7 mai 1886 (convention Pavie).
  (Journal officiel de la République française, 1887, D. C., p. 396).
  XXXV.	— Traité entre la France et la Corée, signé à Paris le 4 juin 1886.
  (Journal officiel de la République française, 1887, D. C., p. 393).
 XXXVI.	— Convention between Her Majesty and His Majesty the Emperor of China relative to Burmah and Thibet, signed at Peking, July 24, 1886.
  (Ratifications exchanged in London, August 25, 1887).
  Whereas Her Majesty the Queen of Great Rritain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being sincerely desirous to maintain and perpetuate the relations of friendship and good understanding which now exist between their respective Empires, and to promote and extend the commercial intercourse between their subjects and dominions, the following convention has been agreed upon and concluded :
  On the part of Great Britain by Nicholas Roderick O’Connor, Esquire, Her Majesty’s secretary of Legation at Washington, and lateley Her Majesty's chargé d’affaires in Chinaf companion of the most distinguished order of St-Michael and St-George, duly empowered thereunto ;
  And on the part of China by his Highness Prince Ch’ing, President of the Tsung-li-Yamèn, and his Excellency Sun, minister of the Tsung-li-Yamèn, senior vice-President of the Board of Works.
  Art. I.— Inasmuch as it has been the practice of Burmah to send decennial missions to present articles of local produce, England agrees that the highest authority in Burmah shall send the customary decennial missions, the members of the missions to be of Burmese race.
  Art. II. — China agrees that, in all matters whatsoever appertaining to the authority and rule which England is now exerci-