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arrested and removed to Thaunggyi pend-
ar f nn f “ rt ier , enquiry. Meanwhile temporary
♦Pa a I ? e . n f' s . lave teen made for carrying on
the administration of the State. J
o paragraph M of the Memoran-
um for December 190i.) In January 1902
an agreement, called the Manai Agreement, was
made between the British Consul at Tengyueh
and the Chinese. Sub-prefect of Tengyueh.
According to Article 4 of that Agreement, the
local Chinese authorities agreed to construct
a road from Kulikha on the Burma-China
rentier to Manwayne (in Chinese territory),
at once, if the work were easy, or gradually, if
it were found difficult. The Lieutenant-Gov
ernor of Burma in August 1903 proposed to
urge upon the Chinese authorities the fulfil
ment of the pledge given in paragraph 4 of
the Manai Agreement, and suggested that, in
the event of difficulties and delays occurring,
the Burma Government should offer to con
struct this section of the road for the Chinese
out of Provincial funds, provided satisfactory
security was given for the refund of the money
spent. The Lieutenant-Governor stated that
he would regard as satisfactory security the
proceeds of the tolls levied from merchants at
Tengyueh, provided that the collection of the
tolls was placed under the control of the Com
missioner of Customs, Tengyueh, and by him
paid to the Government of Burma until the
expenditure on the road was recouped. The
expenditure was estimated at Rs. 62,500 and
was not likely to exceed a lakh One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees , which it was
estimated could he repaid from the proceeds of
the toll in two years. The Government of
India sanctioned these proposals and the Chinese
authorities eventually agreed to refund to the
Government of Burma, by half-yearly instal
ments, the cost of the Kulikha Manwayne
section of the road by paying (i) the whole of
the surtax levied under the Manai Agreement,
and (ii) a sum of 4,000 taels or Rs. 8,000
annually (the total yearly payment being
estimated at Rs. 25,000), until the entire cost of
the work was repaid. The road work was
accordingly started in January 1904. In May
1904 the Government of Burma reported that
the road from Kulikha to Mansein, a village on
the opposite bank to Manwayne, was. in course
of completion, and stated that the Lieutenant-
Governor had intimated to the Chinese that the
road would be carried 12 miles further on to the
village of Lungchang if the Chinese, who had
agreed to this extension, would continue the
payments from the mule tax so as to cover the
additional expenditure. The Government of
Burma later in June 1904 stated that the Chinese
regarded the agreement already entered into as