China:
Contents
- Political affairs: Texts of the Provisional
Constitution, the Presidential Election Law, and the Goodnow draft of a
constitution; suspension of the National Assembly; conversion of the
Political Council (Administrative Conference) into a Constitutional
Convention; promulgation of the Revised Provisional Constitution
(Constitutional compact); synopsis and text thereof; project for
reorganization of the National Assembly (Documents 52–58)
- Loan negotiations: Failure of the
supplementary-reorganization-loan negotiations with the five-power banking
group; currency-loan negotiations with the United States proposed by
China (Documents 59–61)
- Currency reform: Promulgation of a
currency law (Documents 62–63)
- Declaration of a moratorium (Documents 64–66)
- Boxer indemnity payments: Status of the account for
1913; return to China of the remitted portion of the indemnity and of the
unused portion of the claims fund; application thereof by China to
educational purposes (Documents 67–82)
- Claims of American citizens against China growing out of the Revolution of
1911–12 and the Revolt of 1913; undertakings of the
Chinese Government and formation of the Chinese Claims Commission;
£2,000,000 claims fund set aside from the Reorganization Loan; settlement of
Revolution claims (Documents 83–92)
- Huai River conservancy and prevention of famine; surveys initiated by the
American National Red Cross; good offices of the United States; appointment
of a United States Army engineer to superintend surveys. Loan proposals and
contract (Documents 93–126)
- Taxation of foreigners. New stamp tax. Interpretation of the Treaty of
1903 in relation to Chinese internal taxes and to the status of treaty
ports (Documents 127–139)
- Mining regulations affecting treaty rights; objections of the United
States thereto (Documents 140–145)
- Protection by the United States of Chinese—in Costa Rica. (See Costa Rica: Representation of Chinese interests, etc.) in Mexico. (See Mexico: Protection of Chinese subjects, etc.)
- Third International Opium Conference; report of the American delegates.