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we have anticipated your own desire. Mr. Carroll
informs me that he inserted these words in order to protect the Company against the Texas Oil Company who might conceivably object to the appointment of a new agent having been made without consulting them. He is very anxious that we should if possible say that we approve this appointment. If the Department knows Reiss and Company to be satisfactory and to be British, as they presumably are, it might perhaps be possible to say that we note with satisfaction that they have appointed Reiss and Company to act in
that the for has aphomet the aphorism conjunction with Mr. Cheetham If this is accepted we might now
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In pursuance of our letter of the 22nd inst., we now
have the pleasure to advise you that, in order to provide our
Agent, Mr-Humphrey Cheetham, with proper support for the con-
duct of the Canton part of the business, we have appointed as
his Advisers Messrs.Reise & Co. of Hongkong and Canton, one
of the oldest and largest firms in China, as you are probably
aware.
We have signed this afternoon an Agreement with their
Brog London house Hesers L. Reiss
Co.
the main clauses of
which are as follows:
that we confirm
Also telegraph to the Governor that
his permission to theetha
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satisfied that the intereste of
in the Agency bare be
latasminad
and send Governor copy of correspondence.
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The Company, having a short time ago appointed one
Humphrey Cheetham, at present in Hongkong, to be its SOLE
SUB-AGENT for certain territories for the sale of the
Petroleum Products manufactured by the Texas Company of New
York and Port Arthur (Texas) in the United States of America'
and being desirous of attaching Advisers to him, hereby