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Citation Information
320 Tibet and Turkestan
exact reparation for breaches of treaty obligations, and for the insults offered to and attacks upon the British Commissioner and his following and escort, the Tibetan Government engages to pay a sum of pounds, five hundred thousand—equivalent to rupees seventy-five lakhs—to the British Government.
The indemnity shall be payable at such place as the British Government may, from time to time, after due notice, indicate, whether in Tibet or in the .British districts of Darjeeling or Jalpaiguri, in seventy-five annual instalments of rupees, one lakh each on the z st January in each year, beginning from the Ist January, 1906.
VII
As security for the payment of the above-mentioned indemnity, and for the fulfilment of the provisions relative to trade marts specified in Articles II, III, IV, and V, the British Government shall continue to occupy the Chumbi Valley until the indemnity has been paid and until the trade marts have been effectively opened for three years, whichever date may be the later.
VIII
The Tibetan Government agrees to raze all forts and fortifications and remove all armaments which might impede the free communication between the British frontier and the towns of Gyangtse and Lhasa.
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The Government of Tibet engages that, without the previous consent of the British Government,—
No portion of Tibetan territory shall be ceded, sold, leased, mortgaged, or otherwise given for occupation, to any Foreign Power;
No such Power shall be permitted to intervene in Tibetan affairs;
No Representative or Agents of any Foreign Power shall be admitted to Tibet;
No concessions for railways, roads, telegraphs, mining or other rights, shall be granted to any Foreign
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