Government for the retain 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, on due representation to be made by the Governor General aforesaid, to the Supreme Government of China the Commands of His Imperial Majesty that be received Authorizing the conclusion of other arrangements of a more permanent character.
Thus done in Duplicate, each of the parties aforesaid retaining one copy at Canton, this twentieth day of March in the year of the Christian Era one Thousand and Eight Hundred and Sixty being the twenty eighth day of the second month of the tenth year of the Reign of the Emperor Sheen Fung.
True Copy
(Signed) M. M. Cooper
(Free Copy)
Colonial Secretary
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