CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904 — Page 451

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being worked to the best advantage; for instance:- The Board of Commissioners appointed to manage the Railway and which under present conditions would consist of three Europeans, including the Chief Engineer, and two Chinese, should be strengthened by say two nominees of the Colonial Government, and the Board of Commissioners should be made absolutely free to manage the line to the best advantage and according to the Agreements entered into, without any interference from the Chinese Railway Administration unless they should be acting ultra vires,

(4) Both sections of the railway should be managed and worked as though they were one line, the revenue being divided between the Chinese Government and the Colonial Government according to mileage or such other arrangement as may be found best on investigation.

(5) The term association has been used in the foregoing statement to imply a working arrangement which will admit of the two lines being worked as one undertaking while preserving the nationality of each section, and if the Colonial Government are agreeable to such association on the general principles specified herein, negotiations might be commenced with the Chinese Government by the British and Chinese Corporation with the advice and support of the Colonial Government for the final Agreement for the Chinese Loan to be floated after the issue which is shortly contemplated of the Shanghai Nanking Railway Loan.

May 31st 1904.

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1.2 eyi tuulia (61 448 2! Betal 19. 2. being worked to the best advantage; for instance:- The Board of Commissioners appointed to manage the Railway and which under present conditions would consist of three Europeans, including the Chief Engineer, and two Chinese, should be strengthened by say two nominees of the Colonial Government, and the Board of Commissioners should be made absolutely free to manage the line to the best advantage and according to the Agreements entered into, without any interference from the Chinese Railway Administration unless they should be acting ultra vires, (4) Both sections of the railway should be managed and worked as though they were one line, the revenue being divided between the Chinese Government and the Colonial Government according to mileage or such other arrangement as may be found best on investigation. (5) The term association has been used in the foregoing statement to imply a working arrangement which will admit of the two lines being worked as one undertaking while preserving the nationality of each section, and if the Colonial Government are agreeable to such association on the general principles specified herein, negotiations might be commenced with the Chinese Government by the British and Chinese Corporation with the advice and support of the Colonial Government for the final Agreement for the Chinese Loan to be floated after the issue which is shortly contemplated of the Shanghai Nanking Railway Loan. May 31st 1904.

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3*** 1.2 eyi tuulia (61 448 2! Betal 19. 2. being worked to the best advantage; for instance:- The Board of Commissioners appointed to manage the Railway and which under present conditions would consist of three Europeans, including the Chief Engineer, and two Chinese, should be strengthened by say two nominees of the Colonial Government, and the Board of Commissioners should be made absolutely free to manage the line to the best advantage and according to the Agreements entered into, without any interference from the Chinese Railway Administration unless they should be acting ultra vires, (4) Both sections of the railway should be managed and worked as though they were one line the revenue being divided between the Chinese Government and the Colonial Government according to mileage or such other arrangement as may be found best on investigation. (5) The term association has been used in the foregoing statement to imply a working arrangement which will admit of the two lines being worked as one undertaking while preserving the nationality of each section, and if the Colonial Government are agreeable to such association on the general principles specified herein negotiations might be commenced with the Chinese Government by the British and Chinese Corporation with the advice and support of the Colonial Government for the final Agreement for the Chinese Loan to be floated after the issue which is shortly contemplated of the Shanghai Nanking Railway Loan. 申し May 31st 1904. i

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1.2

eyi tuulia

(61

448

Betal

19.

made absolutely free to manage the line to the best advantage and according to the Agreements entered into, without any interference from the Chinese Railway Administration unless they should be acting

ultra vires,

(4) Both sections of the railway should be managed and

worked as though they were one line the revenue being divided between

the Chinese Government and the Colonial Government according to mileage

or such other arrangement as may be found best on investigation.

(5) The term association has been used in the foregoing

statement to imply a working arrangement which will admit of the two

lines being worked as one undertaking while preserving the nationality

of each section, and if the Colonial Government are agreeable to such

association on the general principles specified herein negotiations

might be commenced with the Chinese Government by the British and

Chinese Corporation with the advice and support of the Colonial

Government for the final Agreement for the Chinese Loan to be floated after the issue which is shortly contemplated of the Shanghai Nanking

Railway Loan.

申し

May 31st 1904.

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