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EMIGRATION CONVENTION-AGREEMENTS RESPECTING TIBET

in the service of the Emperor of China, and that in each case the name of the person selected should be communicated to His Majesty's Government, and their agreement to the appointment obtained.

I have the honour to inquire whether the Chinese Government are prepared to meet the wishes of His Majesty's Government in the matter. If so, and if you will inform me accordingly, this note and your reply might be attached to the Convention in order to place on formal record the arrangement concluded.--I have, &c.

(Signed) LANSDOWNE.

Chang Ta-Jen, etc., etc., etc.

Chinese Legation, London,

May 13th, 1904.

My LORD MARQUESS,-In reply to your Lordship's note of this date, I have the honour to state that the Chinese Government are in entire accord with His Britannic Majesty's Government as to the great importance they attach to the Consuls and Vice- Consuls to be appointed under Article VI. of the Convention about to be concluded between the two Governments being men of great experience, and will consider it a duty which they owe to the emigrant to confine the selection of these officers to such as in all respects conform to the requirements specified in the note above referred to, which, together with the present one, it has been mutually agreed shall, in proof of that understanding, be appended to the said Convention.—I have, &c.

The Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G.,

(Signed)

T. Y. CHANG.

etc.,

etc.,

etc.

AGREEMENTS RESPECTING TIBET

Signed at Peking, April 27th, 1906

TO WHICH IS ANNEXED THE CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITed Kingdom

AND TIBET, SIGNED AT LHASA, SEPTEMBER 7TH, 1904

Ratifications exchanged at London, July 23rd, 1906

Whereas His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of China are sincerely desirous to maintain and perpetuate the relations of friendship and good understanding which now exist between their respective Empires;

And whereas the refusal of Tibet to recognise the validity of or to carry into full effect the provisions of the Anglo-Chinese Convention of March 17th, 1890, and Regulations of December 5th, 1893, placed the British Government under the necessity of taking steps to secure their rights and interests under the said Convention and Regulations;