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the matter therein referred to will be dealt with by the Inspector General of the Imperial Maritime Customs at his discretion in accordance with the instructions issued by him subsequent to the Final Protocol of the 7th September 1901. .

We have the honour to be,

Your Excellencies' obedient servants

HIRSCH

D. SIFFERT
DR. BOYÉ

JAS. L. MACKAY

E. HIOKI

J. YAMAOKA

Advocaat F. B. v' JACOB

D. SIFFERT

JOHN GOODNOW

DUTY FREE LIST.

(Vide T. G. Circulars Nos. 979, 984, 1016, 1020, 1022, 1025, 1026.) Instructions received.

12th Oct. 1901.

12th Oct. 1901

7th Nov. 1901.

19th Apl. 1902

1 May, 1902

31 May, 1902

10th May, 1902

3 June, 1902

12th Oct. 1901 3 June, 1902

3 June, 1902

81 May, 1902

1. Foreign Rice, cereals and flour, gold and silver coined and uncoined.

2. Legations supplies from abroad.

3. Supplies for the use of Foreign forces Military and Naval.

4. Official stationery actually transmitted by foreign Government Departments for Foreign Consulates. 5. Supplies under Government stores Certificates.

6. Materials for Railways the import of which "free" is provided for by agreements antedating the Peace Protocol.

7. Samples; in reasonable quantities certified for show and not for sale.

8. Circulars, etc., distributed gratis by mercantile houses.

9. The bona fide baggage of travllers i. e. passengers luggage arriving either with the owner or by a vessel other than that by which the passenger travels.

10. Clothing, books, pictures and furniture already in use when brought in by residents and not for sale.

N. B. Ships Coal and provisions are entitled to drawbacks.

CHINA.

II.

DECLARATIONS; ARRANGEMENTS.

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.

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171

No. 21.

FRANCE.

DECLARATION CONCERNING THE NON-ALIENATION OF THE ISLAND OF HAI-NAN, a

15 MARCH, 1897.

THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN TO MR. GÉRARD, MINISTER OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC At Peking.

[Translation.]

13TH DAY, 2D MOON, 23D YEAR KUANG-HSÜ.

(15 March, 1897.)

The 1st day of the 2d moon of the 23d year Kuang-hsü (March 3, 1897), we received a despatch in which you inform us that France, considering the close friendly and neighborly relations maintained with China, attaches great importance to the island of Hai-nan never being either alienated or ceded by China to any other foreign Power, either as final or temporary cession, or as a naval station or coaling depot.

Our Yamên considers Kiung-chou (the island of Hai-nan) as belonging to the territory of China which consequently exercises over it right of sovereignty. How could it cede it to foreign nations? Furthermore, it is nowise a fact at present that it has lent it temporarily to foreign nations. As in duty bound we make to Your Excellency this official communication.

(Here follow the signatures of the President and the Members of the Tsung-li Yamên).

a Documents diplomatiques. Chine, 1894–1898, p. 33.

173

No. 22.

GREAT BRITAIN.

DECLARATION CONCERNING THE NON-ALIENATION OF THE YANGTSZE REGION. a

FEBRUARY 11, 1898.

SIR C. MACDONALD TO THE TSUNG-LI YAMÊN.

PEKING, February 9, 1898.

MM. LES MINISTRES,

Your Highnesses and your Excellencies have more than once intimated to me that the Chinese Government were aware of the great importance that has always been attached by Great Britain to the retention in Chinese possession of the Yang-tsze region, now entirely hers, as providing security for the free course and development of trade.

I shall be glad to be in a position to communicate to Her Majesty's Government a definite assurance that China will never alienate any territory in the provinces adjoining the Yang-tsze to any other Power, whether under lease, mortgage, or any other designation. Such an assurance is in full harmony with the observations made to me by Your Highnesses and Your Excellencies.

I avail, &c.
(Signed)

CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.

THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN TO SIR C. MACDONALD.

Kuang-hsü, 24th year, 1st moon, 21st day. (February 11, 1898.)

[Translation.]

The Yamên have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the British Minister's despatch of the 9th February, stating that the Yamên had more than once intimated to him that the Chinese Government were aware of the great importance that has always been attached by Great Britain to the retention in Chinese possession of the Yang@British Parliamentary Blue Book, China, No. 2, 1898.

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