Declaration signed by his Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India and appended to the Ratified Conventions of 7 September 1904

        His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor General of India, having ratified the Convention which was concluded at Lhasa on 7th September, 1904, by Colonel Younghusband, C.I.E., British Commissioner for Tibet Frontier Matters, on behalf of His Britannic Majesty's Government; and by Lo-Sang Gyal-Tsen, the Ga-den Ti-Rimpoche, and the representatives of the Council, of the three monasteries Sera, Dre-pung and Ga-den, and of the ecclesiastical and lay officials of the National Assembly, on behalf of the Government of Tibet, is pleased to direct as an act of grace that the sum of money which the Tibetan Government have bound themselves under the terms of Article VI of the said Convention to pay to His Majesty's Government as an indemnity for the expenses incurred by the latter in connection with the despatch of armed forces to Lhasa, be reduced from Rs. 75,00,000 to Rs. 25,00,000; and to declare that the British occupation of the Chumbi Valley shall cease after the due payment of three annual installments of the said indemnity as fixed by the said Article, provided, however, that the trade-marts as stipulated in Article II of the Convention shall have been effectively opened for three years as provided in Article VI. of the Convention; and that, in the meantime, the Tibetans shall have faithfully complied with the terms of the said Convention in all other respects.

        Ampthill, Viceroy and Governor-General of India

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

        S. M. Fraser, Secretary of the Government of India, Foreign Department

From: Francis Edward Younghusband. India and Tibet. London: John Murray, 1910, 443.