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Agreement should be drawn were agreed upon and Mr. Lindsey was en-
-trusted with the task of preparing a draft of the Agreement for
further consideration. On the 11th. of last January Mr.Lindsey
submitted a draft of the Working Agreement together with the en-
-closed Estimates of Daily Passenger Traffic, Local Goods, Through
Coaching, etc. This draft was carefully scrutinized and revised by
the Colonial Secretary and myself and was then circulated to the
Committee which was strengthened in the interval by the addition
of Sir C.P.Chater and Mr.W.J.Gresson.A further meeting of the Com-
-mittee was held at Government House on the 22nd. of last Tebruary
and certain amendments were then made in the draft agreement which
was thereafter further revised by the Chief Resident Engineer, the
Colonial Treasurer, and the Crown Solicitor. Its form was finally
settled in the first week of April, and the final draft of which I
enclose a copy has been circulated to, and agreed in by, both the
Committee and the Executive Council. The proposals it contains for
the working of the Railway as a joint concern and for profit shar-
-ing are in accordance with the original suggestions made by Mr.
Lindsey.
2.
In the meantime I wrote to His
Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking on the 24th. of last Janu-
-ary inquiring whom the Chinese Government proposed to appoint as
their delegate for the negotiation of the Working Agreement,
I enclose a copy of the
and
correspondence