History of the Settlement's Constitution Shows Difficulty of Remedying Defects In view of the suggestions that steps should be taken to secure revision of the Land Regulations in order to carry out certain reforms the constitution and administra~ tion of the International Settlement of Shanghai, it may be useful to consider the history of those Regu-Jallons in the light of attempts made to secure their revision since they came Into existence.
The first Land Regulations which the former British Settlement character of an International Settlement were the Land Regulations of 1854, 'They thus replaced the Land Regulations of 1845 which applied solely to the Settlement in ite character as a British Settlement. 'The Regulations of 1854 were adopted ata meeting presided over Mr. Rutherford Alcock and brought' into force with the _approval of the Consuls of Great Britain, "France, and the United States, It should be explained that after 1845 an American Settlement and a French Settlement were established roughly on the same lines fag Indicated in the Land Regulations of that year. But "the American Settlement was i 1863 amalgamated with the former British Settlement. The plan for amalgamating the French Settlement with the. other two at one time was agreed upon by. the local representatives of the various Powers, but it failed to receive the sanction of French Government, which ultimately retained. special Jurisdiction over the French Settlement, establishing for it separate system of municipal government, and It-came to be known fas the Prench Concession.
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