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Ep.182
3 in No.227
In November 1898 in reply to an enquiry
from Messrs Jardine Matheson and Company of Hong Kong the Inspector General of Customs explicitly laid
it down that "The vessels engaged in inter-Treaty
Port trade or in trade with ports outside Chinese
jurisdiction cannot also be registered for inland
i.e.non-Treaty Port trade. The vessels registered
under the Inland Steam Navigation Rules must be con-
fined to trade between Treaty Ports and inland
places or between inland places".
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སྶཡཧཾ ཧ ཙམཉྙཱ– ཎཱ ན ་
93 p.188
1.in No.228
he words under-
d appear now
the first time the Regulations ir object being remove all room
doubt on the ht raised by dine atheson
Company.
Shortly after this the Regulations were
The first re-issued in their finally amended form.
Regulation begins as follows:-
"The inland waters
of China are hereby opened to all such steamers,
ad
native or foreign are, are specially registered for that trade at the greaty ports. They may proceed to and fro at will under the following Regulations, but they must confine their trade to the inland waters and must not proceed to places out of Chinese terri-
tory."
The effect of this Regulation is that we have two sets of steamers running over the same ground, and each debarred from certain trade which is
we have open to the other. e.g. on the West River steamers from Hong Kong and other foreign ports which
may call at the Treaty Ports Canton,
etc., but at no non-Treaty port
Wuchow, Samshui
and on the other
hand
+N.B. The phrase "inland waters" is used in a technical sense i.e. it applies to all places whether on the coast or inland not open to foreign trade, and therefore excludes Treaty ports.
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