Article 1: When war breaks out between the Choshu clan and bakufu, the Satsuma Domain shall immediately dispatch its approximately 2000 soldiers to Kyoto, make them guard Kyoto together with the soldiers already there at present, and keep about 1000 soldiers in Osaka, thereby taking control of Kyoto and Osaka.
一、戦いと相成候時は、すぐさま二千余の兵を急速差登し只今在京の兵と合し、浪華へも一千程は差置き、京阪両所相固め候事