FINAL AGREEMENT between SHENG KUNG-PAO, Director
General of THE IMPERIAL CHINESE RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION,
and THE BRITISH AND CHINESE CORPORATION, LIMITED, for the
issue and regulation of a Loan for the construction of a Railway
from Canton to Kowloon.
This Agreement is made the
day of the Intercalary
the
month of the
day of
year of KWANG-Hsu, corresponding to
190 at
and the contracting
parties are:-
The Director General of the Imperial Chinese Railway
Administration SHENG KUNG-PAO (to be called hereafter the
Director General), acting under authority of an Imperial Decree,
of the one part, and Messrs. JARDINE MATHESON & COMPANY,
and THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
representing as Joint Agents THE BRITISH AND CHINESE
CORPORATION, LIMITED (hereinafter called "the Corporation") of
the other part.
Whereas a Preliminary Agreement was made on the
28th March, 1899, between H.E. Sheng, Director General of the
Imperial Chinese Railway Administration (hereinafter
called "the Railway Administration"), acting under the
authority of the Tsung-li-Yamen, of the one part, and the British
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