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Export of Limestone.
From the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs
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To His Majesty's Consul-General, Canton.
March 20, 1913.
The Bureau of Foreign Affairs has the honour to acknow-
-ledge the receipt of H. B. M. Consul-General's communication of
the 3rd. instant, which assumed the form of six questions. This
office has, in conjunction with the Bureau of Industry, gone into
the matter and the replies to the six points are respectively as
follows:-
1. The illicit quarrying in, and transport for export from,
this Province of dark blue limestone and limestone by merchants
and others was prohibited by a proclamation of Ch'en Tu Tu issued
in April 1912.
2. The proclamation in question prohibited merely illicit quarrying and transport but did not, as was alleged in H. B. M.
Consul-General's protest of May 2, 1912, place an embargo on
export and this office accordingly considered themselves under no
necessity to withdraw it.
3. That the Green Island Cement Company should have in
former years contracted for the purchase and export of limestone
and that Chinese subjects should have concurrently illegally
quarried and trensported the said limestone, is certainly no
reason why this Government should refrain from prohibiting the
practice.
4. This Office finds that the Fei Shu Quarry was not the
only one closed down by the late Imperial Government.
Wherever illegal exploitation has beenascertained, the
quarries have already been closed down, for they constituted a
direct contravention of the law, and the same rule will be applied
in the future in the case of any quarry still open, whose owners
in defiance of the regulations work or transport stone without a
permit.