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question is raised by anybody, and some respectable person can be produced as surety, the certificate may be renewed. A note will be sent to the Tien-shun-hsiang, who will report to the Head Office, where an entry will be made in the register for reference.
11. Any Chinaman at the ports who may return to China after purchasing shares. must report to the Agency his address in the province where he is to reside.
The Agency will write to the Tien-shun-hsiang, who will report to the Head Office. The latter will inform the Agency at the shareholder's new place of residence, where warrants will be issued for payment of interest.
12. The above particulars are a transcription of what is most important. Details of the rest of the procedure are contained in the Regulations as approved on Memorial and the Supplementary Regulations. Of these several printed copies will be kept at each Agency, where any shareholder can peruse them. It would be superfluous to repeat them here.
Inclosure 4 in No. 1.
Note.
THE provisional receipt is in triplicate. The form at the right of the receipt is the foil, which is bound up with similar foils and kept for reference.
The middle form is the counterfoil, to be (if necessary) sent to and kept at an Agency.
The form to the left is the actual receipt.
In each form the statement is made that at such-or-such a port, so-and-so of this or that district in Province X has agreed to take one share of fifty (or ten or five) dollars; that it is understood that payment shall be by so many instalments; that interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum will be paid from the first day of the month following that in which ten dollars (or the whole sum) has been paid up; and that when share certificates have been printed the receipt shall be exchanged for one of these, and interest warrants issued.
The "actual receipt" states in addition that the share cannot be transferred to a non-Chinese, and that any such transfer will not be recognized by the Company, which will proceed to annul the receipt, in accordance with the Regulations approved on Memorial.
The columns at the head of each form are for noting the amounts paid at each instalment. The words between the forms are (such-and-such) character (from the Thousand-Character-Classic) No. (so-and-so).
(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.
Yüan-an-fu, August 28, 1906.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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SECTION 3.
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No. 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, November 12, 1906.
Mr. Lonsdale,--To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the appointment of a Chinese official to the position of Commissioner of Customs at Yatung, on the Sikkim-Thibet frontier; whether this appointment has been made by direction of the Chinese Controllers-General of Customs; whether this post has hitherto been held by an Englishman; whether he is aware of any other pending appointments which will displace Englishmen in the Chinese Customs service; and whether he has made any representations to the Chinese Government on the subject.
Answer by Mr. Runciman (for Sir Edward Grey).
The post of Commissioner of Chinese Customs at Yatung has hitherto been held by a British subject. The appointment of a Chinese to this post is in accordance with an arrangement made at the time of the signature on the 27th April last of the Convention with China, when an exchange of notes took place by which China undertook that in future no one not of Chinese nationality should be employed in Thibet in any capacity whatsoever. I am not aware of any other pending appointments which will displace Englishmen in the Chinese Customs service.
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question is raised by anybody, and some respectable person can be produced as surety, the certificate may be renewed. A note will be sent to the Tien-shun-hsiang, who will report to the Head Office, where an entry will be made in the register for reference.
11. Any Chinaman at the ports who may return to China after purchasing shares. must report to the Agency his address in the province where he is to reside.
The Agency will write to the Tien-shun-hsiang, who will report to the Head Office. The latter will inform the Agency at the shareholder's new place of residence, where warrants will be issued for payment of interest.
12. The above particulars are a transcription of what is most important. Details of the rest of the procedure are contained in the Regulations as approved on Memorial and the Supplementary Regulations. Of these several printed copies will be kept at each Agency, where any shareholder can peruse them. It would be superfluous to
repeat them here.
Inclosure 4 in No. 1.
Note.
THE provisional receipt is in triplicate. The form at the right of the receipt is the foil, which is bound up with similar foils and kept for reference.
The middle form is the counterfoil, to be (if necessary) sent to and kept at an Agency.
The form to the left is the actual receipt.
In each form the statement is made that at such-or-such a port, so-and-so of this or that districs in Province X has agreed to take one share of fifty (or ten or five) dollars; that it is understood that payment shall be by so many instalments; that interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum will be paid from the first day of the month following that in which ten dollars (or the whole sum) has been paid up; and that when share certificates have been printed the receipt shall be exchanged for one of these, and interest warrants issued.
The "actual receipt" states in addition that the share cannot be transferred to a non-Chinese, and that any such transfer will not be recognized by the Company, which will proceed to annul the receipt, in accordance with the Regulations approved out Memorial.
The columns at the head of each form are for noting the amounts paid at each instalment. The words between the forms are (such-and-such) character (from the
Thousand-Character-Classic") No. (so-and-so).
(Signed) W. II. WILKINSON.
Yüanan-fu, August 28, 1906.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
C
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
44802
INECE
[November 12.]
SECTION 3.
TREE 5 OFC OF
[39022]
No. 1.
Question asked in the House of Commons, November 12, 1906.
Mr. Lonsdale,--To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the appointment of a Chinese official to the position of Commis- sioner of Customs at Yatung, on the Sikkim-Thibet frontier; whether this appoint- ment has been made by direction of the Chinese Controllers-General of Customs; whether this post has hitherto been held by an Englishman; whether he is aware of any other pending appointments which will displace Englishmen in the Chinese Customs service; and whether he has made any representations to the Chinese Government on the subject.
Answer by Mr. Runciman (for Sir Edward Grey).
The post of Commissioner of Chinese Customs at Yatung has hitherto been held by a British subject. The appointment of a Chinese to this post is in accordance with an arrangement made at the time of the signature on the 27th April last of the Convention with China, when an exchange of notes took place by which China under- took that in future no one not of Chinese nationality should be employed in Thibet in any capacity whatsoever. I am not aware of any other pending appointments which will displace Englishmen in the Chinese Customs service.
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