Misvzes of a Meeting of Consuls held at the United States Consulate-General at Shanghai, on the 30th day of September, 1873.
Present, the representatives of Austria, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, and the United States, A note from the Consul-General off france, expressing his inability to attend the meeting, was placed on the table.
The Committee composed of Messrs. Medhurst, Johnson, and Seward, appointed at the last meeting to consult with the Taotai in regard to the Great Northern Telegraph Company line to Woosung and station there, presented a written report, and a form of letter which they recommended to be addressed to the Taotai on behalf of the Consular Body. The report and letter were accepted and approved.
(A) TheSenior Consul reported thathe had placed the Sanitary Rules as accepted by the Consuls at their last meeting, before the Taotai, who in turn had recommended certain amendments which are shown in the correspondence. He was requested to place the Rules again before the Taotai, and to ask his concurrence therein, in the terms accepted by the last meeting:
conversation ensued upon the question whether the Consuls should deal with the recommendations of Dr. Jamieson in his last Medical Report, in respect to the communication of disease through matter thrown into the river. It was considered that the Municipal Council is a more appropriate body to examine the question. dated June 24th 1873, stating that the (B) A Jeter from the Shanghai Magistrate, Municipal Council have refused to pay the Imperial rent on lands used for roads outside the Foreign Settlements, and request~ ing the intervention of the Consular Body, was read and referred to Messrs. Medhurst, Schlik, and Lueders.
'A letter from the Magistrate of the Mixed Court, dated September 22nd 1873, and the petition of certain Chinese keepers of Wine Shops were considered, and the Senior Consul requested to place them before the Municipal Council.
A letter from the Municipal Council, dated September 22nd 1873, asking that the Taotai be moved to pay one-half the cost of the Garden Bridge, and a second letter of the same date, asking that he be moved to pay one-half of the cost of a bridge which it is proposed to construct over the Soochow Creek at the Honan Rond, was considered and referred to Mr. Medhurst to be placed before the Taotai.
A letter from the Magistrate of the Mixed Court, dated September 26th 1873, representing that the lands of certain 12 families in the Lowzah, which lands have never been owned by foreigners, are taxed by the Municipal Council, and asking that the Council be requested' to refrain from collecting the tax, was considered, and the Senior Consul atked to refer the same to the Council.
(D) A letter from the Taotai to Mr. Medhurst, dated September 12th 1873, and written in response to Mr, Medhurst's* letter of August 2ist, presenting the Municipal Council's scheme for bunding the front of the English and American Settlements and the Soochow Creek, was read. The response accepts the propositions of the Council generally, but rejects that part which refers to the extension of the corner between the River and the Oreck next the Recreation Ground, and indicates how far such corner in a rounded form may be carried forward. This letter had already been referred to the Council, and the meeting considered it appropriate to await the Council's response before taking any further action, (B) A letter fromthe Municipal Council, dated September 3rd 1873, proposing to make a flood-gate at the mouth of the creek which enters the Hongkew Creek
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