authorities, and that no claim can ever be made by the Chinese Government for the return of the said ground as long as the British Government punctually pay to them the said amount of rent. And this agreement will continue in force until, in due representation to be made by the Governor-General Laou, aforesaid, to the Supreme Government of China the commands of his Imperial Majesty shall be received authorising the conclusion of other arrangements of a more permanent character.
These done in duplicate, each of the parties aforesaid one copy at Canton, this twentieth day of March in the year of the Christian era 1860 (in words) being the 28th day of the second month of the tenth year of the reign of the Emperor of Sheen fung.
True Copy
Signed: WM. M. COOPER
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