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AGREEMENTS RESPECTING TIBET
regard to the line Shanhailcuan-Newchwang, for the construction of which a loan
has been already contracted by the Chinese Government with the Shanghai-Hong-
kong Bank, acting on behalf of the British and Chinese Corporation.
The general arrangement established by the above-mentioned Notes is not to
infringe in any way the rights acquired under the said Loan Contract, and the
Chinese Government is at liberty to appoint both an English engineer and an
European accountant to supervise the construction of the line in question and the
expenditure of the money appropriated to it. But it remains well uudei-stood that
this fact cannot be taken as constituting a right of property or foreign control,
and that the line in question is te remain a Chinese line, subject to the control of
the Chinese Government, and cannot be mortgaged or alienated to a non-Chinese
Company.
As regards the branch line from Siaohe'ichan to Sinminting, in addition to
the aforesaid restrictions, it has been agreed that it is to be constructed by China
herself, who may permit European—not necessarily British—engineers to periodi¬
cally inspect it, and to verify and certify that the works are being properly executed.
The present special Agreement is naturally not to interfere in any way with
the right of the Eussian Government to support, if it thinks fit, applications of
Eussian subjects or establishments for concessions for railways, which, starting from
the main Manchurian line in a south-westerly direction, would traverse the region
in which the Chinese line terminating at Sinminting and Newchwang is to be
constructed.
The Undersigned, etc.
(Signed) Count Moueavieff.
St. Petersburg, April 16 (28), 1899.
AGREEMENTS RESPECTING TIBET
Signed at Pekiflg, April 2.7th, 1906
To Which is Annexed the Convention Between the United Kingdom-
and Tibet, Signed at Lhasa, Septembee 7th, 1904
Ratifications exchanged at London, July 23rd, 1906
Whereas His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British
Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of China
are sincerely desirous to maintain and perpetuate the relations of friendship and
good understanding which now exist between their respective Empires ;
And whereas the refusal of Tibet to recognise the validity of or to carry into
full effect the provisions of the Anglo-Chinese Convention of March 17th, 1890, and
Regulations of December 5th, 1893, placed the British Government under the necessity
of taking steps to secure their rights and interests under the said Convention and
Regulations j