This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
CHI NA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
61
[December 7.]
SECTION 2.
Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne,-(Received December 7.)
(No. 354.)
Peking, October 17, 1903.
My Lord,
WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch No. 247 of the 20th August last, I have the honour to report that I have already been in communication with His Majesty's Consuls-General at Tien-tsin and Shanghae on the subject of the issue of Regulations to give effect to Article VII of the Commercial Treaty.
At the former port the authorities are said to afford facilities for the registration of trade marks, but no definite Regulations have been framed either there or at Shanghae. I have instructed Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Mausfield to impress upon the Superintendents of Northern and Southern Trade respectively the necessity of doing so at an early date, in order that British subjects may regularly avail themselves of the provisions of the Article referred to.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
ERNEST SATOW.
No. 2.
Sir,
Foreign Office to China Association.
Foreign Office, December 7, 1908.
I AM directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th ultimo, in which you observe that certain provisions included in the Treaty of the 5th September, 1902, between China and this country are omitted from the Commercial Treaty between the United States and China, signed at Shanghae on the 8th October last.
In reply, I am to say that His Majesty's Government intend to insist upon the fulfilment of the arrangement embodied in Annex B, with regard to the allocation of the surtax to the Provincial Governments, as well as upon the execution of the provisions contained in Section 9 of Article VIII, respecting the excise on products of foreign type turned out by machinery in China.
The text of the American Treaty as signed has not yet reached this Office, but, so far as Lord Lansdowne is aware, the Treaty contains no provision with regard to these points.
By Article IV of the American Treaty, the United States' Government have, however, agreed to enter into the engagements undertaken by Great Britain in Article VIII of the Treaty of the 5th September, and the fact that they have not stipulated for all the conditions attached to those engagements by Great Britain need not necessarily be taken as indicating that they attribute no importance to the two points referred to by the Association.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
F. A. CAMPBELL.
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his Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
CHI NA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
61
[December 7.]
SECTION 2.
Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne,-(Received December 7.)
(No. 354.)
Peking, October 17, 1903. My Lord,
WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch No. 247 of the 20th August last, I have the bonour to report that I have already been in communication with His Majesty's Consuls-General at Tien-tsin and Shanghae on the subject of the issue of Regulations to give effect to Article VII of the Commercial Treaty.
At the former port the authorities are said to afford facilities for the registration of trade marks, but no definite Regulations have been framed either there or at Shanghae. I have instructed Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Mausfield to impress upon the Super- intendents of Northern and Southern Trade respectively the necessity of doing so at an early date, in order that British subjects may regularly avail themselves of the provisions of the Article referred to.
I have, &c. (Signed)
ERNEST SATOW.
No. 2.
Sir,
Foreign Office to China Association.
Foreign Office, December 7, 1908. I AM directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th ultimo, in which you observe that certain provisions included in the Treaty of the 5th September, 1902, between China and this country are omitted from the Commercial Treaty between the United States and China, signed at Shanghae on the 8th October last.
In reply, I am to say that His Majesty's Government intend to insist upon the fulfilment of the arrangement embodied in Annex B, with regard to the allocation of the surtax to the Provincial Governments, as well as upon the execution of the provisions contained in Section 9 of Article VIII, respecting the excise on products of foreign type turned out by machinery in China.
The text of the American Treaty as signed has not yet reached this Office, but, so far as Lord Lansdowne is aware, the Treaty contains no provision with regard to these points.
By Article IV of the American Treaty, the United States' Government have, however, agreed to enter into the engagements undertaken by Great Britain in Article VIII of the Treaty of the 5th September, and the fact that they have not stipulated for all the conditions attached to those engagements by Great Britain need not necessarily be taken as indicating that they attribute no importance to the two points referred to by the Association.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
F. A. CAMPBELL.
[2250 g---2]
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