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formed for the purpose, some were brought up by the assembly itself, and some by the people.
Resolutions on all were passed by the assembly. The governor examined them, selecting those which could be acted upon, put them into operation, and sent back those which were impracticable to the assembly for reconsideration.
Those of which consideration was not completed were kept over for the next session.
CHEKIANG.
A reports on the Chekiang assembly was sent to the Foreign Office on the Since then the 13th January by His Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai. governor's official report on the first session has been published, and according to this there were twenty-eight sittings and fifty-six questions considered, of which twenty- seven, were the subject of definite resolutions, Of the twenty-seven, seventeen were approved by the governor and given effect to, one was held over for submission to the Throne, and nine, were contentious matters which in accordance with the
The seventeen approved dealt with- rules were referred to the Senate.
Irrigation.
Simplification of Chinese writing.
Court fees.
Police for mines.
River conservancy.
Sericulture.
Normal schools.
Public resources.
Appropriation of land for public purposes.
Publication of land-tax registers.
Currency.
Abolition of Corvé,
Abolition of Yamên charges.
Abolition of charges against the provincial revenue for extra-provincial
purposes.
Abolition of li-kin abuses.
Provincial constabulary.
Recovery of Pao-shib-shan and Mo-kan-shan to preserve territorial integrity.
(These are two health resorts of foreign missionaries.)
The nine contentious matters were not enumerated: They were referred to the constitutional government commission, pending the establishment of the Senate.
CHIRLI.
Assembly halls in foreign style are, it is understood, in course of construction in all the provincial capitals. The appended cutting from the Tien-tsin "Sunday Journal" of the 22nd May contains the first full account of one of these new buildings which has been published.
May 31, 1910.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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[June 30.]
SECTION 1.
Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 30.)
American Embassy, London, June 29, 1910.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note dated the 24th instant, in which you are so good as to inform me that the French and German Governments have notified to His Majesty's Government their assent to the agreement arrived at in Paris last month in the matter of the Hukuang loan, and that the French and German representatives in Peking have already been instructed by their respective Governments to co-operate with His Majesty's chargé d'affaires in approaching the Chinese Government on the subject.
I duly communicated the substance of your note under acknowledgment to my Government, and I am now in a position to inform you that on the 28th instant the American Minister in Peking was instructed to join with his British, French, and German colleagues in an identic note, formally requesting the Chinese Government without delay to complete the loan agreement of the 6th June, 1909, already initialled by them, as well as the supplemental agreements come to with a view to the inclusion of the American group, a step which was in accord with the expressed wishes of the Chinese Government.
The American Minister was also instructed to remind the Wai-wn Pu of the promise given by Prince Ching to the British and American representatives in October 1903, and to point out that in accepting the present loan agreement, this undertaking must henceforth be held to extend to France and Germany as well as to the two Governments to whom the promise was originally made.
I have, &c.
WHITELAW REID,
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