Papers Relating to the Foreign relations of the United States, 1927, Volume II

893.102H/479: Telegram

The Minister in China ( MacMurray ) to the Secretary of State

Peking , January 28, 1927—4 p.m.
[Received January 28—9:45 a.m.]

92. With reference to the Legation’s despatch No. 773 of 1926 concerning Harbin Municipality, I ask authority to approve a recommendation now made to me by Hanson that “American firms and citizens be requested to pay through the consulate to the municipality or Commissioner for Foreign Affairs voluntarily contributions at the same rates as those of taxes levied on nationals whose Governments adhered to the 1914 municipal agreement⁶² and collected at the time the old municipality created by this agreement was in power.”

MacMurray

62. For text of agreement between the British and Russian Governments respecting municipal administration and taxation within the area of the Chinese Eastern Railway, signed at Harbin, Apr. 17/30, 1914, see British and Foreign State Papers, 1914 (pt. ii), vol. cviii, p. 380.