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0457 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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have free right of access at Gyangtse and Gartok, as well as
at Yatung.
The Regulations applicable to the trade mart at Yatung,
under the Anglo-Chinese Agreement of 1893, shall, subject to
such amendments as may hereafter be agreed upon by com-
mon consent between the British and Tibetan Governments,
apply to the marts above mentioned.
In addition to establishing trade marts at the places men-
tioned, the Tibetan Government undertakes to place no re-
strictions on the trade by existing routes, and to consider the
question of establishing fresh trade marts under similar con-
ditions if development of trade requires it.

III

The question of the amendment of the Regulations of
1893 is reserved for separate consideration, and the Tibetan
Government undertakes to appoint fully authorised dele-
gates to negotiate with representatives of the British Gov-
ernment as to the details of the amendments required.

IV

The Tibetan Government undertakes to levy no dues of
any kind other than those provided for in the tariff to be
agreed upon.

V

The Tibetan Government undertakes to keep the roads to
Gyangtse and Gartok from the frontier clear of all obstruc-
tion and in a state of repair suited to the needs of the trade,
and to establish at Yatung, Gyangtse, and Gartok, and at
each of the other trade marts that may hereafter be estab-
lished, a Tibetan Agent who shall receive from the British
Agent appointed to watch over British trade at the marts in
question any letter which the latter may desire to send to the
Tibetan or to the Chinese authorities. The Tibetan Agent
shall also be responsible for the due delivery of such com-
munications and for the transmission of replies.

VI

As an indemnity to the British Government for the ex-
pense incurred in the despatch of armed troops to Lhasa, to