Trade-marts in Tibet

[Ya Sam]

Convention between Great Britain and Tibet, 1904

Signed at Lhasa on the 7th September 1904


[...] the said Governments have resolved to conclude a Convention with these 
objects, and the following articles have been agreed upon by Colonel F. E. 
Youngbusband, C.I.E., in virtue of full powers vested in him by His 
Britannic Majesty's Government and on behalf of that said Government, and 
Lo-Sang Gyal-Tsen, the Ga-den Ti-Rimpoche, and the representatives of the 
Council, of the three monasteries Se-ra, Dre-pung, and Ga-den, and of the 
ecclesiastical and lay officials of the National Assembly on behalf of the 
Government of Tibet. [...]

              II. The Tibetan Government undertakes to open forthwith 
trade-marts, to which all British and Tibetan subjects shall have free right 
of access at Gyantse and Gartok, as well as at Yatung.

        The Regulations applicable to the trade-mart at Yatung, under the 
Anglo- Chinese Agreement of 1893, shall, subject to such amendments as may 
hereafter be agreed upon by common consent between the British and Tibetan 
Governments, apply to the marts above mentioned. [...]

          IV. The Tibetan Government undertakes to levy no dues of any kind 
other than those provided for in the tariff to be mutually agreed upon. 
[...]

This Convention was ratified by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India in 
Council at Simla on the eleventh day of November, A.D., one thousand nine 
hundred and four.

http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/docs/history/primarydocs/Treaties/Tibet/Treaty1904I.htm


'She had been the ward of Lieutenant-Colonel G. Auberon Halfcourt [...] 
seconded some while ago to the Political department in Simla for the odd 
extra-regimental chore [...]' p. 222

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