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obliged to His

then

The Committee are Excellency the Administrator for opportunity of expressing the viewer of the Chamber, but without knowing something of the nature of the

to which are to be drawn-

regulations ra

up by special Commissioners under Article II, it is difficult to eay.

more than that the Commercial

clauses of the Treaty appear to have

been framed

spirit.

The re

we

in a liberal and,

ed progressive

are special privileges to

the French implied by a reduction of duties, below those paid at the Treaty Ports of Chica,

on the

frontier trade between Jongking,

Yunnan a

an aud

Quangsi,

and the

right

al

right to appoint Consular Officers certain places in thèse Provicces is

important.

The latter right will, under the Favoured Nation Clause, beconce

the privilege also of other nations having Treaties with China, but the differential rate between n

maritime and

.....

will

frontier duties hardly become applicable under these clauses unless the Chinese, as has been urged by this Chamber, open up

the water communications

of Kwangtung into western China; when directly conveyed merchandize should become subject to no greater

duty than is borne by good cro the frontier by laud.