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Government;
but from the wording of the Article I infer
that Schedule D is not agreed to. I propose to do all in my
power to induce the Chinese Government to accept the pro-
visions of Schedule D, but I can hardly expect that these
provisions will be accepted without further explanation.
Your Excellency's telegram of September 21 states that the
clause and Schedule D were transcribed from the proposed Cus-
toma Convention and were drafted by Mr. Harris, the Connis-
Reference however to the copy of the
sioner of Customs.
"final revise of the draft Anglo-Chinose Customs Convention
of llongkong" forwarded in your despatch of lay 26 last shows
that Schedule D differs in some material respects from the
corresponding Article 13 of that draft. Moreover the Cus-
toms' assent to the rules in Article 13 as part of a general
agreement may not necessarily imply assent to similar rules
detached from the other provisions of the Agreement.
Indeed
the words in sub-section (e) of Schedule D, "goods taking out
transit documents from the office of the Imperial Maritime
Customs in Hongkong" would seem to imply a reference to
Article 8 of the
draft