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VI. The High Contracting powers reserve for discussion and arrangement the
method in which official communications between the British authorities in India and
the authorities in Tibet shall be conducted.

VII. Two joint Commissioners shall, within six months from ratification of this
Convention be appointed one by the British Government in India the other by the
Chinese Resident in Tibet. The said commissioners shall meet and discuss the
questions which by the last three preceding Articles have been reserved.

Vlll. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratification shall be
exchanged in London as soon as possible after the date of signature thereof.
In witness whereof the respective negotiators have signed the same and affixed
thereunto the seals of their arms.

Done in quadruplicate at Calcutta this Seventeenth day of March in the year
of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Ninety, corresponding with the
Chinese date the seventh day of the second moon of the sixteenth year of Kuang
Hsu.

Sd/- Sheng Taj SD/- Lansdome

CHINESE SEAL AND SIGNATURE Viceroy and Governor General

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