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to be taken is to arrange the terms of the orking Agreement to be made between the two Governments and when this is done the British and Chinese Corporation
with the assistance and support of the Colonial Government, proceed to negotiate for the final Loan Agreement for the Chinese Section, suck Agreement being on the general lines of the Shanghai Nanking Railway Loan Agreement modified generally to meet the different circumstances and materially to admit of the proposed joint w rking Agreement.
The general odifications are not of in odiate moment but to ad it of the proposed joint working Agrec- ment I suggest that there be substituted for Article
23 a new Article as follows:-
PROPOSED ARTICLE 23.
The Railway shall be constructed, whether
departmentally or by a Contractor or Contractors to the
Specification of the Consulting Engineers to be
nominated by the Corporation and appointed and paid by
the Board of Commissioners and whereas the Colonial
Government of HongKong are about to construct a British
Colonial Government Railway from the Port of HongKong
to the frontier of British Kowloon with the object of
connecting with the Chinese Railway at the frontier of
Kowloon, the Chinese Goverment hereby undertakes the
rutification of this Agreement to enter into an Agree-
ment in the terms of the craft set forth in the
Schedule here to, with the Colonial Government of
HongKong providing for the commection of the two Kailways when completed and for the working of the two Railways on the joint behalf of the said Governcients.
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