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manufactured, when exported from a port shall pay export duty according to the Customs Tariff, and the total amount of outward li-kin payable on mining produce shall in no case exceed the amount of the transit duties specified under the Tariffs with Treaty Powers.
When this time has passed, all money
11. All the mining is limited to sixty years. The mines, machinery, materials, houses, land, bridges, and roads, bought with the money borrowed from the Anglo-Eastern Syndicate, and whether new or old, all go to the Chinese Government without any payment at all, and whether the Anglo-Eastern Syndicate has made a loss or profit. Then the Hunan Board of Mines shall make a Petition to the Governor of Hunan to send a deputy to receive all these things.
12. All the mines are under the sovereignty of China, and if hereafter China is at war with any other nation, the Anglo-Eastern Syndicate shall, as a duty, listen to what the Chinese order, and cannot help enemies.
This Agreement is made in two duplicates, Chinese and English, each party holding one copy.
Sir,
Inclosure 3 in No. 1.
Mr. Bax-Ironside to Mr. P. A. Chance.
Peking, May 20, 1899.
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 18th instant. I observe that you have been in negotiation with the local officials of the Province of Hunan with a view to obtaining a Concession of the exclusive right to mines and deposits of kerosene oil in that province.
You ask me to note your application for my good offices.
If you desire me to make a formal application to the Chinese Government on your behalf for the above purpose, it would be necessary to modify your scheme so as to do away with the character of a monopoly.
I scarcely think this would be the wisest course to adopt. The Chinese Government has signified its intention of only granting mining rights to Chinese subjects, who, under certain conditions, may call in foreign skill and capital, and the method of working with the Chinese on these lines has been already adopted by certain British subjects.
Your best chance of success in obtaining a Concession would be to continue to negotiate with the local authorities.
I am, &c.
(Signed) H. O. BAX-IRONSIDE.
No. 2.
Mr. Bax-Ironside to the Marquess of Salisbury.—(Received July 10.)
(No. 140. Confidential.) My Lord,
Peking, May 26, 1899.
In continuation of my despatch No. 121 of the 12th instant, I have the honour to state that I received a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong on the 19th instant, informing me that the military occupation of Shamchun and Kowloon City took place on the 16th instant without opposition; that the native soldiers had taken their departure; and the Customs officers had not been interfered with.
On the same day I had an interview with the Tsung-li Yamên, at which no mention whatever was made of the action taken by the Hong Kong authorities; but on the 22nd instant a strong protest arrived from the Chinese Government, dated the 21st instant.
In their note, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, the Ministers profess surprise at our occupation of Shamchun and Kowloon City. They entirely ignore the protracted discussions which took place prior to this action on the part of Her Majesty's Government, as already reported to your Lordship in my previous
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manufactured, when exported from a port shall pay export duty mines, raw or according to the Customs Tariff, and the total amount of outward li-kin payable on mining produce shall in no case exceed the amount of the transit duties specified under the Tariffs with Treaty Powers.
When this time has passed, all
money
11. All the mining is limited to sixty years. the mines, machinery, materials, houses, land, bridges, and roads, bought with the borrowed from the Anglo-Eastern Syndicate, and whether new or old, all go to the Chinese Government without any payment at all, and whether the Anglo- Eastern Syndicate has made a loss or profit. Then the Hunan Board of Mines shall make a Petition to the Governor of Hunan to send a deputy to receive all these things.
12. All the mines are under the sovereignty of China, and if hereafter China is against any other nation, the Anglo-Eastern Syndicate shall, as a duty, listen to what the Chinese order, and cannot help enemies.
This Agreement is made in two duplicates, Chinese and English, each [party] bolding one copy.
Sir,
Inclosure 3 in No. 1.
Mr. Bax-Ironside to Mr. P. A. Chance.
Peking, May 20, 1899.
I BEG to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 18th instant. I observe that you have been in negotiation with the local officials of the Province of Hunan with a view to obtaining a Concession of the exclusive right to mines and deposits of kerosene oil in that province.
You ask me to note your application for my good offices.
If you desire me to make a formal application to the Chinese Government on your behalf for the above purpose, it would be necessary to modify your scheme so
as to do away with the character of a monopoly.
I scarcely think this would be the wisest course to adopt. The Chinese Govern- ment has signified its intention of only granting mining rights to Chinese subjects, who, under certain conditions, may call in foreign skill and capital, and the method of working with the Chinese on these lines has been already adopted by certain British subjects.
Your best chance of success in obtaining a Concession would be to continue to negotiate with the local authorities.
I am, &c.
(Signed) H. O. BAX-IRONSIDE.
-No. 2.
Mr. Bax-Ironside to the Marquess of Salisbury.—(Received July 10.)
(No. 140. Confidential.) My Lord,
Peking, May 26, 1899.
IN continuation of my despatch No. 121 of the 12th instant, I have the honour to state that I received a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong on the 19th instant, informing me that the military occupation of Shamchun and Kowloon City took place on the 16th instant without opposition; that the native soldiers had taken their departure; and the Customs officers had not been interfered with.
On the same day I had an interview with the Tsung-li Yamên, at which no mention whatever was made of the action taken by the Hong Kong authorities; but on the 22nd instant a strong protest arrived from the Chinese Government, dated the 21st instant.
In their note, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, the Ministers profess surprise at our occupation of Shamchun and Kowloon City. They entirely ignore the protracted discussions which took place prior to this action on the part of Her Majesty's Government, as already reported to your Lordship in my previous
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