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0079 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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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