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conducted in Hongkong by persons who have an intimate
knowledge of the subject. I trust therefore that the
recommendation contained in the 13th. paragraph of Sir
F. D. Lugard's Confidential Despatch of the 28th. April to
the effect that the Commissioner of the Chinese Imperial
Maritime Customs should be deputed to negotiate with a
representative of this Government is approved.
3.
I have also to invite Your Lord-
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-ahip's special attention to the concluding sentences of the
13th. paragraph of Sir F. D. Lugard's Confidential Des-
-patch of the 28th. of last April and also to the 5th.
paragraph of his Confidential Despatch of the 9th. idem on
the subject of the Working Agreement for the Kowloon-
-Canton Railway. Your Lordship will observe from these
passages that it was decided to incorporate the necessary
Customs arrangements, so far as they affect the Railway,
in the Customs Convention rather than in the Working
Agreement, because negotiations would thereby be facilitat-
-od, the Agreement with the Imperial Maritime Customs
being negotiated with the Chinese Imperial Maritime
Customs,
and if necessary with the Shui Wu Ch'u, while
the Working Agreement was separately but simultaneously
negotiated with Mr. Wei Han acting under the instructions
of
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