CONVENTION OF CHEFOO

CONVENTION OF CHEFOO

2.-CONVENTION OF CHEFOO.
AGREEMENT between Great Britain and China for the Settlement of
the Yunnan Case, Official Intercourse, and Trade between the
two Countries.

[Signed at Chefoo, 13th September, 1876.]

Agreement negotiated between Sir Thomas Wade, K C.B., Her Britan-
nic 3 majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the
Court of China, and Li, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the
Emperor of China, Senior Grand Secretary, Governor-General of the Pro-
vince of Chih-li, of the First Class of the Third Order of Nobility.

Section III-Trade.

VII. The Governor of Hongkong having, long, complained of the inter-
ference of the Canton Customs Revenue cruisers with the junk trade of
that Colony, the Chinese Government agrees to the appointinent of a Com-

mission, to consist of a British Consul. an officer of the Hongkong Gov-
ernment and a Chinese official of equal rank, in order to the establish-
ment of some system that shall enable the Chinese Government to protect
its reveliue without prejudice to the interests of the Colony.

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