[This Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government.]
Printed for the use of the Foreign Office. May 1897.
I am to request that the Treaty may be considered as a confidential document until the ratifications have been exchanged.
CONFIDENTIAL,
(6904.)
I am your most obedient, humble Servant.
Francis Bertie
Enclosed: Agreement giving full text of the agreement.
P.S. Two Copies are enclosed.
Copy of Agreement modifying the Burmah-China Frontier and Trade Convention of March 1, 1894.
IN consideration of the Government of Great Britain consenting to waive its objections to the alienation by China, by the Convention with France of the 20th June, 1895, of territory forming a portion of Kiang Hung, in derogation of the provisions of the Convention between Great Britain and China of the 1st March, 1894, it has been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the following additions and alterations shall be made in the last-named Convention, hereinafter referred to as the original Convention :-
ARTICLE I.
It is agreed that the frontier between the two Empires from latitude 25° 35′ north shall run as follows:-
Commencing at the high peak situated approximately in that latitude and in longitude 98° 14' east of Greenwich, and 18° 16' west of Peking, the line shall follow, as far as possible, the crest of the hills running in a south-westerly direction to Warung Peak (Kaulyang), and shall extend thence to Sabu Pum.
From Sabu Pum the frontier shall run in a line along the watershed slightly to the south of west through Shatrung Pum to Nainienku Pum.
Thence it shall follow a line to be fixed after local investigation, dividing the Szis and the Kumsas as far as the Tabak Kha; thence the Tabak Kha to the Namtabet; thence the Namtabet to the Paknoi Kha; thence the Paknoi Kha to its source near Talang Pum; thence the Talang Pum ridge to Bumra Shikong.
From Bumra Shikong the frontier shall follow a line running in a south-west direction to the Laisa Kha; thence the Laisa Kha to the Molè stream, running between Kadon and Laisa; thence the Molè to its confluence with the Cheyang Kha; thence the Cheyang Kha to Alaw Pam; thence the Nampaung stream to the Taping.
ARTICLE II.
[The Taping to the Shweli River.]
From the junction of the Taping and the Nampaung streams the frontier shall follow the Taping to the neighbourhood of the Lwalaing ridge; thence a line running approximately along the Lwalaing ridge and the Lwalaing stream to the Namwan; thence the Namwan to its junction with the Shweli.
Great Britain engages to recognize as belonging to China the tract to the south of the Namwan River, near Namkhai, which is inclosed to the west by a branch of the Nam Mak River and the Mawsiu range of hills up to Loi Chow Peak, and thence by the range running in a north-easterly direction to the Shweli River.
In the whole of this area China shall not exercise any jurisdiction or authority whatever. The administration and control will be entirely conducted by the British Government, who will hold it on a perpetual lease from China, paying a rent for it, the amount of which shall be fixed hereafter.
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