New Ponts:—Tho clauses which forbid any foreign control whatever will probably make this section quite ineffective. If there are no Municipal or police regulations and the whole Government is in Chinese hands it will be extremely difficult if not impossible to carry out the provision of paragraph five, section 8, in which it is stated, the consumption tax is not to be levied within foreign Concessions or Settlements." For other reasons, too, the places will be undesirable as centres of foreign population and for western residence.
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