The Chinese Government has engaged to negotiate amendments judged useful by the Foreign Governments to the treaties of commerce and navigation, and other subjects touching commercial relations, with the view of facilitating these.
From now and in consequence of the stipulations inscribed in Article VI on the subject of the indemnities, the Chinese Government has engaged to ce-operate in the amelioration of the course of the n Peiho and Whangpoo, as set out below (a.) The of amelioration and of the navigability of the Whangpoo, commenced in 1898, with the ce-operation of the Chinese Government, have been recommenced under the direction of an international commission. As soon after as the administration of Tientsin shall have been
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