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firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co., for themselves and on behalf

of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, representing

as Joint Agents the Corporation, of the other part, and it was

part of the objects thereof that the terms of another Preliminary

Agreement signed by the same contracting parties on the 13th

May, 1898, should be thereby adopted as a Preliminary Agreement

for the construction and working of a Railway from Canton to

British Kowloon in the Province of Kwantung, subject, however,

as far as might be practicable, to the terms and conditions there-

after agreed to in the Final Contract for the Shanghai-Nanking

Railway when signed and ratified.

And whereas the said Final Contract for the Shanghai-

Nanking Railway was duly signed and was ratified under the

authority of an Imperial Edict dated 9th day of July, 1903.

And whereas the terms of the said Final Contract for the

construction and equipping the Railway from Shanghai to

Nanking were that the Corporation was authorised to issue a sterling loan guaranteed both as to principal and interest by the

Chinese Government, secured by mortgage and redeemable as therein mentioned, upon the terms and conditions therein set

forth, and that the Chinese Government should provide the necessary land for the Railway as well as other facilities for the

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