The Revenue and Taxation of the Chinese Empire

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Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press, 1903 - 240 Seiten
 

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Seite 87 - The Chinese Government has agreed that the quarter occupied by the legations shall be considered as one specially reserved for their use and placed under their exclusive control, in which Chinese shall not have the right to reside and which may be made defensible.
Seite 89 - Whangpu and the improvement of the course of that river, is hereby created. This board shall consist of members representing the interests of the Chinese Government and those of foreigners in the shipping trade of Shanghai. The expenses...
Seite 86 - The revenues assigned as security for the bonds are the following: 1. The balance of the revenues of the Imperial Maritime Customs after payment of the interest and amortization of preceding loans secured on these revenues, plus the proceeds of the raising to...
Seite 86 - ... (c) The Chinese Government shall deliver to the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps at Peking a bond for the lump sum, which shall subsequently be converted into fractional bonds bearing the signatures of the delegates of the Chinese Government designated for that purpose.
Seite 89 - Pu), which takes precedence over the six other Ministries of State. The same edict appointed the principal members of this Ministry. An agreement has also been reached concerning the modification of Court ceremonial as regards the reception of foreign Representatives . and has been the subject of several notes from the Chinese Plenipotentiaries, the substance of which is embodied in a memorandum herewith annexed (annex No.
Seite 89 - The works for the improvement of the navigability of the Peiho, begun in 1898 with the cooperation of the Chinese Government, have been resumed under the direction of an international commission. As soon as the administration of Tientsin shall have been handed back to the Chinese Government, it will be in a position to be represented on this commission, and will pay each year a sum of sixty thousand Haikwan taels for maintaining the works.
Seite 110 - That Russia should have a monopoly of mines north of the Great Wall, ie in Manchuria and Mongolia. (4) That Russia should have an ice-free port as a terminus for her railway. The other Russian aims were the dismissal of all other Europeans in the...
Seite 87 - Power to maintain a permanent guard in the said quarter for the defence of its Legation.
Seite 83 - The Chinese Government has announced that it will erect, on the spot of the murder of His Excellency Baron von Ketteler, a Memorial Monument corresponding to the rank of the deceased, with an inscription in Latin, German, and Chinese, which shall express the regret of HM the Emperor of China for the murder done.
Seite 87 - All the duties on importations levied ad valorem will be converted into specific duties, as far as it is possible to do so and with the least delay. This conversion will be established as follows: The average value at the time of their disembarkation during the three years, 1897, 1898, 1899, will be taken as the basis of the valuation — that is to say, the value on the market, deduction being made of the import duties and the accessory expenses.

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