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FINAL PROTOCOL BETWEEN CHINA AND ELEVEN POWERS, 1801
Pending the result of the work of conversion, duties shall be levied ad valorem.
(2.) The beds of the rivers Whangpoo and Peiho shall be improved with the
financial participation of China.
Art. VII.-The Chinese Government has agreed that the quarter occupied by the Legations shall be considered as one specially reserved for their use and placed under their exclusive control, in which Chinese shall not have the right to reside and which may be made defensible.
The limits of this quarter have been fixed as follows on the annexed plan (Annex No. 14.) -
On the East, Ketteler Street ( 10, 11, 12).
On the North, the line 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
On the West, the line 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
On the South, the line 12-1 drawn along the exterior base of the
Tartar wall and following the line of the bastions.
In the Protocol annexed to the letter of the 16th of January, 1901, China recognised the right of each Power to maintain a permanent guard in the said quarter for the defence of its Legation.
Art. VIII.-The Chinese Government has consented to raze the forts of Taku aud those which might impede free communication between Peking and the sea. Stepa have been taken for carrying this out.
Art. IX.-The Chinese Government conceded the right to the Powers in the Protocol annexed to the letter of the 16th of January, 1901, to occupy certain points, to be determined by an agreement between them for the maintenance of open com- munication between the capital and the sea. The points occupied by the Powers are:-Huang-ts'un, Lang-fang, Yang-ts'un, Tientsin, Chun-liang-Ch'ẻng, Tong-ku, Lu-t'ai, Tong-shan, Lan-chou, Chang-li, Ch'in-wang Tao, Shanhai-kwan.
Art. X.-The Chinese Government has agreed to post and to have published during two years in all district cities the following Imperial Edicts:—
(a) Edict of the 1st of February, 1901 (Annex No. 15), prohibiting for
ever, under pain of death, membership in an anti-foreign society.
(b) Edicts of the 13th and 21st of February, 29th of April and 19th of August, 1901, enumerating the punishments inflicted on the guilty. (c) Edict of the 19th of August, 1901, prohibiting examinations in all cities
where foreigners were massacred or subjected to cruel treatment. (d) Edict of the 1st of February, 1901 (Annex No. 16), declaring all Governors-general, Governors and Provincial or local officials responsible for order in their respective districts, and that in case of new anti-foreign troubles or other infractions of the Treaties which shall not be immedi- ately repressed and the authors of which shall not have been punished, these officials shall be immediately dismissed without possibility of being given new functions or new honours.
The posting of these Edicts is being carried on throughout the Empire. Art. XI. The Chinese Government has agreed to negotiate the amendments deemed necessary by the Foreign Governments to the Treaties of Commerce and Navigation and the other subjects concerning commercial relations with the object of facilitating them.
At present, and as a result of the stipulation contained in Article VI concern. ing the indemnity, the Chinese Government agrees to assist in the improvement of the courses of the rivers Peiho and Whangpoo, as stated below.
(a) The works for the improvement of the navigability of the Peiho, begun in 1898 with the co-operation of the Chinese Government, have been resumed under the direction of an International Commission.
As soon
as the administration of Tientsin shall have been handed back to the Chinese Government it will be in a position to be represented on this Commission, and will pay each year a sum of 60,000 Haikwan Taels for maintaining the works.
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