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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
TRADE REGULATIONS SIGNED 53
be open for all British subjects for purposes of trade
from the first day of May, 1894," and the Government were
to be free to send officers to reside at Yatung to watch
the conditions of British trade." British subjects were
not at liberty to buy land and build houses for themselves,
but were to be free " to rent houses and godowns (stores)
for their own accommodation and for the storage of their
goods," and to sell their goods to whomsoever they
please, to purchase native commodities in kind or in
money, to hire transport of any kind, and, in general, to
conduct their business without any vexatious restrictions."
Goods other than arms, liquors, and others specified, were
to be " exempt from duty for a period of five years "; but
after that, if found desirable, a tariff might be " mutually
agreed upon and enforced." The Political Officer in
Sikkim and the Chinese Frontier Officer in conference
were to settle any trade disputes arising.
No arrangements for communication between British
and Tibetan officials were made, but it was laid down that
despatches from the Government of India to the Chinese
Resident should be handed over by the Political Officer in
Sikkim to the Chinese Frontier Officer.
And as to grazing, it was agreed that at the end of
i one year such Tibetans as continued to graze their cattle
in Sikkim should be subject to such regulations as the
British Government might lay down.
May 1, 1894, had been fixed as the date upon which
the trade-mart at Yatung was to be opened, and at the
appointed time Mr. Claude White, the Political Officer
iE in Sikkim, was sent to visit Yatung, to attend the opening
it of the mart, and to report on the general situation as
regards trade. He was instructed not to raise the
r question of demarcating the frontier, but to undertake,
if the subject was mooted by the Chinese officials, that
their views and suggestions should be laid before the
Government of India.
I Mr. White, writing on June 9 from Yatung, reported
It that, in the first place, the site of the mart had been
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