sanitory and building regulations, policing, and public services. The Chinese also agreed that title deeds issued by the British administration to persons other than Chinese would be exchanged for Chinese deeds of perpetual lease. All decisions pronounced by British courts before rendition would remain in effect. Under an annex to the agreement certain facilities on the island of Liukungtao were loaned to Britain as summer resorts for the navy for a period of ten years.
CHINKIANG
Chinkiang was opened as a Treaty Port under the Treaty of Tientsin (1858).
1.
Britain was granted a perpetual lease of the concession area under an agreement of February 1861. Nationalist troops occupied Chinkiang on 27 May 1927 and police administration of the concession was formally handed over to the Chinese authorites negotiations for its return were begun in March 1929 and concluded with an exchange of notes dated 31 October 1929. The Chinkiang concession was finally returned to China from 15 November 1929.
2. In the notes Britian agreed to return to China the land leased under the 1861 agreement, and that the British Municipal Administration be dissolved, and the British municipal regulations be repealed from 15 November 1929. Title deeds issued by the British would be exchanged forChinese deeds of perpetual lease. The Chinese also agreed that tax rates paid by holders of former British leases would remain unaltered pending the promulgation of a national land tax law, and that British firms at Chinkiang could continue to enjoy the right of conveying goods the Burd from godowns or ships. The Chinese agreed to pay $68,000 compensation for damage done in 1927.
ΑΜΟΥ
1. Amoy was opened to British traders under the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, and the concession area was leased to Britain by an exchange of notes in 1852. Police administration was exercised by the Chinese from 1925. Negotiations for its return to China began in the spring of 1930 and were concluded in an exchange of notes on 17 September 1930.
2. Under the agreement British title deeds, issued to nationals other than Chines, would be exchanged for Chinese deeds of perpetual lease. Chinese lotholders would have "appropriate documents" issued to them by the Chinese authorities. Holders of Chinese deeds of perpetual lease would have no charge in land tax pending the promulgation of a national law on land tax.
CANTON
1. The British concession in Shameen was lease under an exchange of notes in 1861.
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