Boxer Protocol

The Boxer Protocol, called the Final Protocol in its own text, was signed at Peking on 7 September 1901 by China and the powers that had sent forces against the Boxer rising. The United States commissioner W. W. Rockhill reported its text with the notes and imperial edicts annexed to it. China agreed to punish officials held responsible, with named senior figures condemned to death or ordered to take their own lives, and to suspend official examinations for five years in cities where foreigners had been mistreated. It sent an envoy to Japan to express regret for the killing of the legation chancellor Sugiyama, paid for expiatory monuments in desecrated foreign cemeteries, and accepted a ban on importing arms and ammunition for two years, renewable. It agreed to an indemnity of four hundred and fifty million Haikwan taels as a gold debt at four percent interest repaid over thirty-nine years. The legation quarter at Peking was reserved for the legations under their exclusive control, and the Taku forts were to be razed.