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Canton-Macao Railway Agreement.

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On the 14th day of the 9th moon of the 28th year

of Kuang Hsü (October 15th, 1902) the Wai Wu Pu in-

formed the Portuguese Minister at Peking that the

Chinese Government had agreed to the formation of a

company for the purpose of building a railway between

Macao and Canton with joint Chinese and Portuguese

capital. A copy of this despatch is appended to the

present agreement.

On behalf of the Imperial Chinese Government,

Sheng,

Director General of Railways, Junior Guardian

of the Heir Apparent, and a former Vice-President of

the Board of War, and

On behalf of the Royal Portuguese Government,

Castello Branco, His Most Faithful Majesty's Minister

Plenipotentiary at Peking,

have met at Shanghai and negotiated an agreement re-

garding the Chinese-Portuguese Railway Company on the

general principle that the joint management shall rest

with Chinese and Portuguese merchants, between whom

capital and executive powers are to be equally divid-

ed

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