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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
(REGS 25 OCT 09
Regulations concerning Rates and Fees.
Article 1. Rates are classified into--
(a.) House rate.
(b.) Sundry rates.
Art. 2. The grades and ratios that form the basis of assessment, together with their alterations, shall be determined by the district agent, subject to the president's approval.
Art. 3. The house rate shall be assessed on each resident, tenant, &c., in the taxable district, according to the grade and ratios as assigned to him, by taking into consideration his capacity for bearing burdens.
Art. 4. The sundry rates shall be assessed on singers, dancers, restaurant maids, buffoons, singing masters, musicians, street singers and musicians, carriages, jinrikishas, bicycles, carts, boats, junks, places of public amusement, slaughter- houses, &c.
For the rates on singers, dancers, restaurant maids, and buffoons, their keepers, if any, shall be held liable.
Art. 5. On persons sojourning in the railway area longer than three months, the rates shall be assessed dating from the time of their arrival.
Art. 6. The rates are collectable by the year, by the month, and by the day, at the discretion of the district agent:-
(1.) Annual rates shall be collected for each fiscal year in four instalments, each instalment being payable respectively on the 1st April, the 1st July, the 1st October, and the 1st January.
From anyone becoming liable to assessment in the intervening period the rates shall be collected in monthly instalments, dating from the 1st of the month in which the liability was created.
(2.) Monthly rates. Where the liability is created before the 15th, inclusive, the rates shall be collected for a full month, and if after the 16th, inclusive, for half a month.
(3.) The rates may, in some cases, be assessed by the day. Should the liability to assessment be cancelled or otherwise affected in the intervening period, the rates already paid shall not be remitted, nor shall the amount assessed be altered.
Art. 7. The creation of a new rate or a new ratio for assessment is subject to the president's approval.
Art. 8. The officials of the district agency may, if deemed necessary, make a personal inspection of any place of business or the books and objects belonging thereto.
Art. 9. The district agent may, with the president's approval, grant exemption from, or a reduction of, the rates in some exceptional cases.
Art. 10. The rates and fees collectable on common property or joint enterprises shall be jointly borne by all the parties concerned.
Art. 11. Anyone who rents land or buildings, or owns buildings in the railway area, but does not reside therein, shall appoint an agent for the payment of the rates, &c., and shall report his name and address to the district agent.
Art. 12. All fees shall be fixed and their alterations be made by the district agent, subject to the president's approval.
Art. 13. In case the rates or fees are not paid within the fixed period, the district agent may enforce their payment in accordance with the company's regulations.
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[October 11.]
SECTION 4.
Sir A. Nicolson to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 11.) (No. 548.) Sir,
St. Petersburgh, October 7, 1909. WITH reference to my despatch No. 532 of the 1st instaut, I have the honour to report that the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has issued the following communiqué to the press :-
"The Russian consul-general at Harbin has had an explanation with the German consul, who has arrived there from Mukden, and in reply to a protest respecting the action of the German partners of the brewery firm Harbin,' he received on the 23rd September (6th October) a letter from the German consul at Harbin to the effect that, as the result of an enquiry into the affair, he does not recognise the right of the firm to German protection. In consequence of this, upou the instructions of the German consul the flag was removed from the brewery. At the same time the charge against German subjects of having acted insultingly towards Russian officials whilst engaged in the execution of their official duties has been referred to the German consul at Mukden as being under his jurisdiction."
I have, &c.
A. NICOLSON.
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