PHOCLAVATION.
by 8.b. the Viceroy and ..Chang Chien asun.
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In view of the importance of railway extension to commercial
development, the sanction of the coard of Commerce has been obtained
for the formation of a company to undertaks the construction of a ling
from Cacton to Amoy. The first section of this line, from Ch'uan Lung
K'ou outside the East Gate of Canton to La Chia kei in Ahaapoa, is
thirteen miles in length. It then passes through Iseng Ch'ong, Shih
Lung Chen in Tung Kuan, Pc Lo, Muel Shan, hai #eng and Lu reng in mul
Chou; Hui Lai, F'u Nine, and Chieh Yang districts in Ch'ao Chou,
brunching off to cutside the city of Ch'ao Chou via Yao Ping, and
thence to Asoy. The length of the line will be about 500 miles.
officers have been depute, in conjunction with the Pan Yu
Magistrate, to thoroughly survey the localities through which the first
section of the line, from Canton to Ahanpoa, is to pass, and no obsta-
cles have paen discovered in the nature of dwelling houses or graves
to prevent the inellate delineation and curchase of the route and tha
commencement of operations.
Owners of property on route, cther than waste land belonging
to Government which shall be acquired on such teras as are customary
in the locality, should produce all title-leels to the Company for
inspection, and the land shall be purchased at a fair price calculated
on the average of recent years. Owners of graves, houses, fruit-trees,
ponds,etc. on land thus requirel, shall be reimbursed at a fair valug-
tion by the Company for all monies expended on the construction, pur-
chase, or removal of the same. in order that the general public may
derive as much penefit as possible from the scheme, any owner who shall
prefer payment in shares in the line may notify the Company to that
effect and shall be allotted shares, cearing interest annually, in
proportion to the value of his lani. But no owner shall raise the price
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