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With reference to the provisions of the Final Protocol of 1901 relating to the establishment of a Whangpu Conservancy Board, its functions and revenues, China being now desirous of substituting a different arrangement, assuming charge herself of the work and making herself responsible for the whole cost, and the Powers who were parties to the Protocol having given their consent thereto, the following arrangement has been agreed to.

The works in connection with the straightening of the channel of the Whangpu River and of the improvement of the bars above and below Wusung together with the maintenance of such improvements shall all be placed under the management of the Shanghai Customs Taot'ai and the Commissioner of Customs. The control of the Whangpu River Police, lights, beacons, sanitary matters, pilot service, et cetera, shall be under the same control as formerly.

Within three months from the date of signing this agreement, China will herself select an engineer well versed in river conservancy work, and if a majority of the Representatives of the Powers parties to the Final Protocol consider him well qualified, China will at once appoint him to undertake the work. If after the commencement of the work a new appointment, for reasons deemed valid by a majority of said Representatives, becomes 446