Agreement Between Chinese and Foreign Authorities Arrangements have been made by the Consular Body and the Shanghai Municipal Council with the Chinese Government by which the latter began, under certain conditions, to collect the revenue stamp tax inthe UW} International Settlement on Tuesday.
Much trouble has been experieneed in the past with various govern mental bureaux and the Consular Body and the Council has been against permitting all sorts of] gover ment officials from functioning in the Settlement because they invariably attempted to assume a good deal of the administrative and. Judicial function in consistent with.
status of the International Settlement. In the present instance, the Consular Body and the Council are not in any way abandoning that, principle, At the same time, in the case of the revenue stamp tax bureau of! which Mr. Kuan Chun, former:
Senior Magistrate of the International Mixed Court and a well-known and respected resident of the Settlement, is director, there is no objection "to the providing facilitities to Chinese who wish to obtain stamps for their documents, s0 both the Consular Body and the Council have agreed to the establish ment of the Stamp Tax Bureau in the Settlement on condition (1) that: no representatives of the Chinese police or other agents of the Chinese authorities should be allowed to function in the Settlement in connection with the enforcement. of the stamp tax regulations; and (2) that. the absence of stamps on documents should not necessarily invalidate [documents but only subject persons. putting forward such unstamped documents to a penalty.
agents will, therefore, examine the books of Chinese merchants. in will be used to force people to purchase revenue stamps and attack them to their documents, which may be admitted into courts as evidence leven though they may be unstamped, The Bureau has been established in Avenue Edward VII and, at the request of Mr. Kuan, a watchman {has been provided by the count THe Shanghai ofice of the Waichiaopu will be removed to the Bureau of Foreign Affairs at the end of this year, when the post of Commissioner of Foreign Afairs for Kiangsa Province will be abolished, mother, and her uncle, as also for the two small children she leaves We are asked to inform friends who would like to do something in her memory, that Mrs. Oliver was particularly' interested in the Missions to the Seamen,
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