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IV. The provisions of the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1890 and Regulations of 1893 shall, subject to
the terms of this present Convention and annex thereto, remain in full force.
V. The English and Chinese texts of the present Convention have been carefully compared and found to
correspond but in the event of there being any difference of meaning between them the English text shall
be authoritative.
VI. This Convention shall be ratified by the Sovereigns of both countries and ratifications shall be
exchanged at London within three months after the date of signature by the Plenipotentiaries of both
Powers.
In token whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this Convention, four copies in
English and four in Chinese.
Done at Peking this twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, being the fourth
day of the fourth month of the thirty-
second year of the reign of Kuang-hsu.
(L.S.) Ernest Satow
(Signature and Seal
of the Chinese Plenipotentiary)
Exchange of Notes Between Great Britain
and China Respecting the Non-Employment of
Foreigners in Tibet,
Peking, April 27, 1906
Tong Shoa-yi to Sir E. Satow
Your Excellency,
With reference to the Convention relating to Tibet which was signed to-day by your Excellency and
myself on behalf of our respective Governments, I have the honour to declare formally that the
Government of China undertakes not to employ any one not a Chinese subject and not of Chinese
nationality in any capacity whatsoever in Tibet.
I avail, & c.
Tong Shoa-yi
Sir E. Satow to Tong Shoa-yi
Your Excellency,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of this day's date, in which you
declare formally, with reference to the Convention relating to Tibet which was signed today by your
Excellency and myself on behalf of our respective Governments, that the Government of China
undertakes not to employ any one not a Chinese subject and not of Chinese nationality in any capacity
whatsoever in Tibet.
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I avail, & c.
Ernest Satow
Notes
1. Source: B.F.S.P., 1905-1906, Vol. 99, pp. 171-173.
Reproduced from M. C. van Walt van Praag's Status of Tibet: History, Rights and Prospects in
International Law. With permission of the author.
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