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Peking Capital
And in every Provincial city in China, there is a Tartar city where Manchus reside separate from Chinese? How is it not also set apart at Peking a Foreign Reservation, or Legation Quarter, where alone the members of the various Legations, and by special permission the officials of the Imperial Maritime Customs and their Chinese servants may live?
Are not the British Settlements at Tientsin and elsewhere, which are foreign soil leased to Great Britain; and the British Concessions at Hankow, Kiukiang, Chinkiang, Amoy, and elsewhere which are ceded in perpetuity to Great Britain, instead of European Reservations whose primary object was precisely that of the Peak Reservation Ordinance?
And do not the Chinese cheerfully consent to the British Municipalities which administer those Settlements and Concessions, prohibiting Chinese from residing there?
Why, when the Municipality which...
138
Peking Capital
And in
Every
at in Chuna
Provincial
a
Tartar lity
where Manchus rexode separate from
Chinese? How it not also set
apart at Peking a twerpenn Reservation, or Legation Quarter,
where alone
the members of the
various regations, and by special
permunicion
the officials ofthe Imperial
Maritime Customs
and their Chineal
Servants
may live
?
are not the
British Settlements at Tientsin and
ilsewhere, which are deinear soil leased to Great Britain; and the
British Concessions at Hankow,
Kinking, Chonkiang, Antommand
Elsewhere which are
ceded in
perpetuity to Great Britain, instaar
of lurpean Meservations
whose
promary object was precisely that
и?
of the Peak Reservation Ordinance
And toe not the Chinese
fort.
Cheerfully consent to the Butiate Municipalities which administer
those Settlements and Concessions,
prohobiting Chinese from residing
there ?
Why, When the Manicifrating w'ich
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