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advance to Gyantse altered policy ANGLO-CHINESE CONVENTION appointed armed Article attack Blue Books Britain British Commissioner British Government British subjects British trade Brodrick Buriat Candler Chinese Amban Chinese and Tibetan Chinese frontier officer Chumbi Valley Colonel Younghusband Commercial Mission concessions Convention of 1890 Dalai Lama diplo diplomacy dispatch Dre-pung Emperor of China established at Yatung Excellency the Viceroy F. E. YOUNGHUSBAND Foreign Power Ga-den Ti-Rimpoche Gartok Giaogong Government of India Government of Tibet Governor-General of India Guru Home Government indemnity Indian Government Khamba Jong Lord Curzon Lord Elgin Lord George Hamilton Majesty's Government matchlocks ment Mission to Khamba Monastery occupied Officer for Sikkim open negotiations pasturage Phari pledge Political Officer regard regulations relations with Tibet reside at Yatung Resident in Tibet Russian Seal Secretary Sera Monastery Shigatse Signed Sikkim and Tibet telegram Tibetan Government undertakes Tibetan side Tibetan territory tion trade marts treaty obligations vention Viceroy and Governor-General
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Page 71 - Power or to the subject of any Foreign Power. In the event of consent to such concessions being granted, similar or equivalent concessions shall be granted to the British Government.
Page 65 - Yatung to trade ; but after the expiration of this term, if found desirable, a tariff may be mutually agreed upon and enforced. Indian tea may be imported into Tibet at a rate of duty not exceeding that at which Chinese tea is imported into England, but trade in Indian tea shall not be engaged in during the five years for which other commodities are exempt.
Page 69 - The Tibetan Government undertakes to levy no dues of any kind other than those provided for in the tariff to be mutually agreed upon.
Page 70 - 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 1st January in each year, beginning from the ist January, 1906.
Page 67 - ... of the said Convention ; and the Commissioners thus appointed having met and discussed the questions referred to, namely, Trade, Communication and Pasturage, have been further appointed to sign the agreement in nine Regulations and three general articles now arrived at, and to declare that the said nine Regulations and the three general articles form part of the Convention itself. In witness whereof the respective Commissioners have hereto subscribed their names. Done in quadruplicate at Darjeeling...
Page 68 - Whereas doubts and difficulties have arisen as to the meaning and validity of the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1890, and the Trade Regulations of 1893, and as to the liabilities of the Tibetan Government under these agreements ; and whereas recent occurrences have tended towards a disturbance of the relations of friendship and good understanding which have existed between the British Government and the Government of Tibet...
Page 62 - State is hereby recognised, has direct and exclusive control over the internal administration and foreign relations of that State, and except through and with the permission of the British Government, neither the Ruler of the State nor any of its officers shall have official relations of any kind, formal or informal, with any other country.
Page 68 - Ti-Rimpoche, and the representatives of the Council, of the three monasteries, Se-ra, Dre-pung and Ga-den, and of the ecclesiastical and lay officials of the National Assembly on behalf of the Government of Tibet.
Page 61 - Who having met and communicated to each other their full powers, and finding these to be in proper form, have agreed upon the following Convention in eight Articles...