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No. 45. Confidential.
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23 MAR 14
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Sir,
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H. B. H. Consulate-General,
Centon, November 23, 1913.
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Confirming my telegrams Nos. 2 and 3 of the 20th. and
22nd. instant, I have the honour to make the following report on the latest development of the limestone case,
At an interview which Mr. Jamieson had with Lung Tutu and the Civil Governor, Li K'ai-asien, on the lst. instant, and at which His Majesty's Vice-Consul was present, the question of the ex- -port of limestone was the principal subject of discussion and it was agreed both by Lung and by Li thet, apart from the levy of a licence fee, the future conditions under which limestone should be quarried and exported would be in o respect different from those which obtained under the capire. That is to say, the prohibition introduced by ex-Tutu Ch'en Ch'iung-ming and continued by his successor, Hu llan-nin, would be abrogated and the Green Island Cement Company would be allowed to contract for stone at any quarry in the province, the sole exception being the quarry at Fei Shu Yen in the Fa Yun district, whence the Canton Cement Works by reement made with local licensed contractors derive their supplies.
It was explicitly stated at this interview that the licence fee required by the Canton Government would be paid to the Civil Governor, that it would not exceed in arount that already paid by the Canton Company, that the quarrying licence would be issued by him
and that apart from this licence fee no charges whatsoever would be
levied except the ordinary Custous and likin duties. All that was
necessary was for the Green Island Company's contractors to apply for- -mally to the Civil Governor and he would instruct them as to the for-
malities to be observed, the nature of the petition and of the maps required etc., and on receipt of these together with a report from the local magistrate the petition to quarry would be granted and a licence issued. The question of compensation for lossess sustained by the
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