Art: 2. In accordance with the permissions granted by the Tsungli Yamen in the 9th year of Tungchi (i.e., 1870) the ends of the cable must be kept in a stake anchored at a distance from the shore. The Chinese Government has now promised to allow the Great Eastern Extension Telegraph Company to lay its submarine cable ends on shore in a cable house at Cape Shantare, the mouth of the river Minstory, opposite the island of Gutzlaff. From that place the cable will be connected with Shanghai by a Chinese-owned land line.
Art. 3. The Chinese Telegraph Administration will build a land line from Shanghai to Cape Shantare which will be connected with the Great Eastern Telegraph Company's cable. And the cable of the Great Eastern Extension Telegraph Company laid at Cape Yangtay will be only for Hongkong.
The special agent of the Great Eastern Extension Company will recommend his company to apply to Her Majesty's Government to abstain from using the right to bring telegraph cables into Ningpo, Foochow, Swatow and Canton or other Treaty ports on the Chinese coast.
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