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tariff shall be publicly notified and promulgated for general information, and the Emperor further engages that, when British merchandise shall have once puid at any of the esid ports the regulated curtom end duus, agreeable of the tariff to be hereafter fixed, euch merchandise may be con- Toyed by Chineɛu merchants to any province, or city in the anterior of the Empire of China, on paying a further amount
ep trantit duties, which shall not exceed
on the tariff value of auch goodɛ.”
per cont
Article XIV of the French Treaty of Tientein of 1858. "Aucune societé de commerce privilegiee ne pourra deɛormais
s'etablir en Chine, et il en sera de meme de toute coali-
tion organisée dans le but d'exercer une monopole aur 18
commerce. En cas de contravention en present Article, les
autorites chimises sur les representations du consul ou de
l'agent congulaire, sviseront aux moyene de dissoudre de
#emblables meecciation dont ellée s'efforceront d'ailleurs
de prevenir l'existence par deɛ prohibitions préalables,
afin d'ecarter tout ce qui pourrait porter atteinte a la
libre cone rrence."
alec to the correspondence entitled "An Opium Monopoly at Nanking at page 3 of the Appendix to the report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce 1907.
Finally we submit that so long as the Indian Goverment cultivates the growth of the Poppy and wella Opium, it le logical that any interference with Treaty rights with regard to the sale of Opium in Chins should be rigorously protested againet, and that every means should be taken to compel China to carry out and fulfil her Treaty obligations.
We submit further, that the Chinese Goverment should not be allowed to make any regulatione contrary to Treaty which will affect the free esle of Opium from India, the growth of which
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