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No. 73.
Sir T. Wade to Earl Granville.-(Received July 22.)
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Tien-tsin, June 3, 1882. WHEN I returned to England in 1877, I received Lord Derby's permission to draw up a Report that should explain the uegotiations between the Chinese Government and myself, which, after lasting some two years, were closed by the signature of the Chefoo Agree-
ment.
My Report was divided into three parts: the first relating to the Yunnan outrage; the second to the questions of official intercourse and administration of justice, in both of which Departments improvement was desired; the third to trade.
I was unable to lay my Report before Lord Derby earlier than the month of July, and by this time objections had been stated to certain arrangements which, in the Agree- ment, I had undertaken to recommend; objections, on the part of the Representatives of five of the Treaty Powers, to limitation of the area of exemption from inland taxation in exchange for the commercial advantages conceded by China; objections on the part of the Government of India to my scheme for securing to the Government of China the farther revenue it has a right to derive from tariff-paid opium, the new arrangements contemplated under my Agreement involving the exclusion of the native collectorates from the port-area which I proposed to circumscribe.
Publication of the 3rd Part of my Agreement was in consequence postponed. The Government of India having now practically withdrawn its objection to the system I recommended, I should be glad if your Lordship were now to sanction its publication. I accordingly inclose a copy of the paper in question, with the Appendices. It will have to be referred to presently when I am reporting on the taxation of the general trade; but there is much in it regarding opium which I think will be found to support the views of the Government of India. A few verbal alterations have been introduced into the original
text.
I have, &c.
(Signed) THOMAS FRANCIS WADE.
17 AUG 2
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