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Title: China and the Boxers. A short history of the Boxer outbreak, with two chapters on the sufferings of missionaries and a closing one on the outlook
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beals, Z. Charles (Zephaniah Charles), 1861-1946
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Publisher: New York, M.E. Munson
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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or the death penalty. Guarantees of future security are exacted by pro-visions of the note demanding that the importation ofarms into China shall be prohibited until further notice;that each Power may maintain a permanent legation guardin Peking and place in a state of defense the quarterwhere the legations are situated; that the Taku fortsand all others commanding the approach to Peking fromthe sea shall be razed; that the Powers shall have theright to occupy points agreed upon among themselvesfor the purpose of keeping open communication to thecapital; that in all sub-prefectures the Imperial Govern-ment shall for two years post decrees proclaiming thepenalty of death against all who belong to any anti-for-eign societies, recording the punishments inflicted for vio-lations of that decree, and making Viceroys and provin-cial and local authorities responsible for public order,under penalty of degradation for life; that the ChineseGovernment shall enter into negotiations for the amend-
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EARL LI—THE STATESMAN. THE future: outlook. I5I ment of commercial treaties, and that the Governmentshall be bound to reform, in a manner determined by thePowers, the Tsung-Li Yamen, or Foreign Office, andthe Court ceremonial for the reception of foreign Min-isters. China ceases to be a sovereign nation the moment sheassents in principle or detail to these demands. It is evi-dent that a Power that permits other Powers to step inand prescribe her internal laws is no longer sovereign,independent and equal with the rest. She has becomesubordinate, she is controlled from without. Under thepresent Manchu dynasty of Ta-tsing (sublime purity)the laws of the empire are contained in the Ta-tsingPluei-tien, or code of the dynasty, and the administrationof public affairs is committed to the Interior Council,under whose orders the seven boards of Government act,corresponding tO our departments at Washington. Thelaws and customs to be observed by the people are en-forced by the Li-Pu board. We m

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