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0460 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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Declarations signed by His Excellency the Viceroy and the
Governor-General of India, and appended to the
Ratified Convention of 7th of September, 1904.

His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India,
having ratified the convention which was concluded at Lhasa
on the 7th of September, 1904, by Colonel Younghusband,
C. I. E., British Commissioner for Tibet frontier matters, on
behalf of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and by Lo-
Sang, Gyal-Tsen, the Ga-den, Ti-Rimpoche, and the repre-
sentatives of the Council of the monasteries, Se-ra, Dre-pung,
and Ga-den, and of the Government of Tibet, is pleased to
direct as an act of grace that the sum of money which the
Tibetan Government have bound themselves, under the
terms of Article 6 of the said convention, to pay to his
Majesty's Government as an indemnity for the expenses in-
curred by the latter in connection with the dispatch of armed
forces to Lhasa, be reduced from Rs. 7,500,000 to Rs. 2,500,-
000, and to declare that the British occupation of Chumbi
Valley shall cease, after the payment of three annual install-
ments of said indemnity, as fixed by the said Article. Pro-
vided, however, that the trade marts, as stipulated in Article
2 of the convention, shall have been effectively opened for
three years, as provided in Article 6 of the convention, and
that in the meantime the Tibetans shall have faithfully com-
plied with the term of the said Convention in all other
respects.

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