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# CHINA TRADE
## CONFIDENTIAL
No. 1.
174
[May 9.]
## SECTION 1.
Mr. Townley to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received May 9.)
(No. 103.) My Lord,
Peking, March 17, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, forwarding copies of the new Hankow Outward Transit Pass Rules offered by the Customs' authorities in substitution for those known as the Chinkiang Rules.
Your Lordship will observe that Mr. Fraser states that the new system is all in favour of trade and that he is recommending its adoption by British merchants.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
WALTER TOWNLEY,
### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
(No. 10.) Sir,
Consul-General Fraser to Mr. Townley.
Hankow, February 28, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to forward three printed copies of a set of Outward Transit Pass Rules offered by the Customs' authorities in substitution for that known as the Chinkiang Rules.
The modifications are all in favour of trade and I am recommending them to British merchants who retain, of course, the option of insisting on the Treaty arrangements as amplified by the notification of the 30th October, 1861.
The general principles of the new Regulations were discussed and approved at a meeting of the Consular Body; but the Customs' Superintendent will send to each Consul separately a copy thereof, pointing out that their adoption, signified by the signing of the Bond prescribed in Rule I, is optional.
The heavy imposts now levied in the interior will probably stimulate the use of passes now that export abroad is not imperative.
It may be of interest to add that the Lu-Han Railway during February carried to Hsin-yang some 2,140 piculs of paper, medicine, sugar, &c., and brought to Hankow nearly 9,000 piculs, inclusive of 3,600 piculs of sesamum seed, 2,132 piculs of medicines, and 957 piculs of hides. The li-kin collection amounted to 2,534,900 cash, say £2131.
I have, &c.
(Signed) E. H. FRASER.
### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Hankow Outward Transit Pass Provisional Regulations.
#### RULE I.
FOREIGN merchants, desiring to bring down to Hankow, under transit pass, Chinese produce of any description, shall first obtain from the Commissioner of Customs (gratis) a printed form of bond, in which each applicant, with two sufficient sureties, firstly, undertakes to abide by the provisions of these Rules, or to forfeit to the Chinese Government a sum of money equal to six times the export duty payable on the declared amount of goods to be covered by the pass applied for; and by which, secondly, they give to the Chinese Customs' authorities, as an additional security for the due fulfilment
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
174
[May 9.]
SECTION 1.
Mr. Townley to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received May 9.)
(No. 103.) My Lord,
Peking, March 17, 1903. I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, forwarding copies of the new Hankow Outward Transit Pass Rules offered by the Customs' authorities in substitution for those known as the Chinkiang Rules.
Your Lordship will observe that Mr. Fraser states that the new system is all in favour of trade and that he is recommending its adoption by British merchants.
I have, &c.
WALTER TOWNLEY,
(Signed)
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
(No. 10.) Sir,
Consul-General Fraser to Mr. Townley.
Hankow, February 28, 1903. I HAVE the honour to forward three printed copies of a set of Outward Transit Pass Rules offered by the Customs' authorities in substitution for that known as the Chinkiang Rules.
The modifications are all in favour of trade and I am recommending them to British merchants who retain, of course, the option of insisting on the Treaty arrange- ments as amplified by the notification of the 30th October, 1861.
The general principles of the new Regulations were discussed and approved at a meeting of the Consular Body; but the Customs' Superintendent will send to each Consul separately a copy thereof, pointing out that their adoption, signified by the signing of the Bond prescribed in Rule I, is optional.
The heavy imposts now levied in the interior will probably stimulate the use of passes now that export abroad is not imperative.
It may be of interest to add that the Lu-Han Railway during February carried to Hsin-yang some 2,140 piculs of paper, medicine, sugar, &c., and brought to Hankow nearly 9,000 piculs, inclusive of 3,600 piculs, of sesamum seed, 2,132 piculs of medicines, and 957 piculs of hides. The fi-kin collection amounted to 2,534,900 cash, say 2131.
I have, &c.
(Signed) E. H. FRASER.
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Hankow Outward Transit Pass Provisional Regulations.
RULE I.
FOREIGN merchants, desiring to bring down to Hankow, under transit pass, Chinese produce of any description, shall first obtain from the Commissioner of Customs (gratis) a printed form of bond, in which each applicant, with two sufficient sureties, firstly, undertakes to abide by the provisions of these Rules, or to forfeit to the Chinese Government a sum of money equal to six times the export duty payable on the declared amount of goods to be covered by the pass applied for; and by which, secondly, they give to the Chinese Customs' authorities, as an additional security for the due fulfilment
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