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of opium in China, and also to take stringent measures to stop the large quantities of native opium which is now finding its way into Kuangtung, and to suppress the smuggling of illicit foreign opium from Macao and Kuangchouwan.
10. In the event of any Indian opium so stamped or certificated as aforesaid being detained or confiscated by the Customs, Li-kin, or local authorities in any of the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung, the Envoy hereby undertakes, on behalf Op of the Chinese Government, to recover the same, and if the same cannot be recovered, to pay the Combines the then market price thereof.
11. The Envoy, on behalf of the Chinese Government, hereby guarantees that Indian opium so stamped or certificated as aforesaid will be exempt from the "Pao Cheng Chin" (guarantee fee) which is at present being levied or imposed in Kuangtung, or any other such imposition by whatever name the same may be designated or called, and also from all such impositions in the provinces of Kiangsu and Kiangsi by whatever names the same may be designated or called.
12. This agreement shall be in force, from the date hereof to the 1st April, 1917. 13. The Combines shall provide reasonable office accommodation for the use of the Envoy and his staff free of rent.
14. The Envoy, on behalf of the Chinese Government, hereby guarantees that the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung will not be closed before the 1st April, 1917, unless all the Indian opium at present stocked in Shanghai and Hong Kong shall have been exhausted before the said date.
15. In the event of the stamp or certificate so issued as aforesaid not being respected by the Customs, Li-kin, or local authorities in any of the said provinces or proving ineffective, or in the event of the Envoy not recovering any opium which may be detained or confiscated, or his not paying the Combines the then market price of the same if not recovered by him, or in the event of stringent measures not being taken to prevent and suppress the illicit trade in native opium in the said provinces, or the smuggling of native or illicit opium into Kuangtung, Kiangsi, or Kiangsu, on repre- sentations being made by the Combines to the Envoy that there is such illicit trade or smuggling, or in the event of any Indian opium so stamped or certificated as aforesaid not being exempted from Pao Cheng Chin orany such imposition in the said provinces, or in the event of any of the said provinces being closed before the 1st April, 1917, then in any of the above events the Combines shall be at liberty to declare this agreement null and void, and be released from their obligations hereunder, and in the event of the Combines not paying the said contributions as hereinafter provided, the Envoy shall be at liberty to declare this agreement null and void, and be released from his obligations hereunder.
16. This agreement is to be done in English and Chinese in triplicate, one to be kept by the Combines, one by the Envoy, and one by the Chinese Government for purposes of record.
17. In case of dispute as to the meaning or construction of this agreement, the English text shall prevail.
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In witness whereof the said parties hereto have executed this agreement the day year first above written.
(L.S.) A. HOWARD.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-named Combines by their duly authorised and appointed representative and attorney, Albert Howard, in the presence of:
A. S. P. WHITE-COOPER,
Solicitor, Shanghai.
(L.S.)
TS'AI NAI HUANG.
Sigued, sealed, and delivered by the above-named Envoy, in the presence of:
This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, |
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
India Office to Foreign Office. (Received June 23.)
[June 23.]
SECTION 1.
India Office, June 22, 1915. Sir,
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th June, and to inform you in reply that Mr. Chamberlain concurs in the proposal that Mr. Wilton should not be retained at Shanghai in the appointment of opium commissioner.
I am, &c.
E. J. TURNER.
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J. O. ANDERSON,
Barrister-at-Law, Shanghai.
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