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# Memorandum
the building to be the joint property of both companies.
Permission was given but the native contractor built it in Chinese Territory, 85 feet to the North of the boundary.
On the acquisition of the New Territories it was proposed that the Eastern Company should take over the Chinese line to the new frontier.
The Director of the Chinese Telegraph Administration represented that the line was a private commercial undertaking and that the Chinese Government had issued no instructions, and the matter was allowed to drop.
In 1903 the Administration were notified that the removal to the new frontier must be effected within six months. Further desultory correspondence ensued and the matter again fell through at the end of 1904 as it was thought that to press it further would be prejudicial to the negotiations in connection with the Canton Kowloon Railway.
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