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15ft FINAL PROTOCOL BETWEEN CHINA AND ELEVEN POWERS, 1901
Commission, and will pay each year a sum of 60,000 Haikwan Taels
for maintaining the works.
(b) A Conservancy Board, charged with the management and control
of the works for straightening the Whangpoo 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 incurred for the works and the general management of the under¬
taking are estimated at the annual sum of 460,000 Haikwan Taels for the first twenty
years. This sum shall be supplied in equal portions by the Chinese Government and
the foreign interests concerned. Detailed stipulations concerning the composition, i
duties and revenues of the Conservancy Board are embodied in Annex No. 17.
Art. XII.—An Imperial Edict of the 24th of July, 1901 (Annex No. 18),
reformed the Office of Foreign Affairs, Tsungli Yamen, on the lines indicated by the
Powers, that is to say, transformed it into a Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Waiwupu,
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 the Foreign Representatives, and has been the
subject of several Notes from the Chinese Plenipotentiaries, the substance of which
has been embodied in a memorandum herewith annexed (Annex No. 19).
Finally it is expressly understood that as regards the declarations specified above
and the annexed documents originating with the foreign Plenipotentiaries, the
French text only is authoritative.
The Chinese Government having thus complied to the satisfaction of the Powers
with the conditions laid down in the above-mentioned Note of December 22nd, 1900,
the Powers have agreed to accede to the wish of China to terminate the situation
created by the disorders of the summer of 1900. In consequence thereof the foreign
Plenipotentiaries are authorised to declare in the names of their Governments that,
with the exception of the Legation guards mentioned in Article VII., the Interna¬
tional troops will completely evacuate the city of Peking on the 17th of September,
1901, and, with the exception of the localities mentioned in Article IX., will withdraw
from the Province of Chihli on the 22nd of September, 1901.
The present Final Protocol has been drawn up in twelve identical copies and signed
by all the Plenipotentiaries of the contracting countries. One copy shall be given
to each of the Foreign Plenipotentiaries, and one copy shall be given to the Chinese
Plenipotentiaries.
(Signed) A. von Mtjmm.
„ M. CziKANN.
„ JOOSTENS.
„ B. J. DE COLOGAN.
„ W. W. Rockhill.
„ Beau.
„ Ernest Satow.
„ Salvago Raggi.
„ JuTARO KoMURA.
„ F. M. Knobei,.
„ M. DE Giers.
„ Yi K’uang.
„ Li Hung-chang.
Certified copy.
(Signed) A. d’Anthouard.
„ B. I^RODFENSKY.
„ Reginald Tower.
„ Von Bohlenund Halbace.