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to be taken is to arrange the terms of the orking Agreement to be made between the two Governments and when this is done the British and Chinese Corporation

with the assistance and support of the Colonial Government, proceed to negotiate for the final Loan Agreement for the Chinese Section, suck Agreement being on the general lines of the Shanghai Nanking Railway Loan Agreement modified generally to meet the different circumstances and materially to admit of the proposed joint w rking Agreement.

The general odifications are not of in odiate moment but to ad it of the proposed joint working Agrec- ment I suggest that there be substituted for Article

23 a new Article as follows:-

PROPOSED ARTICLE 23.

The Railway shall be constructed, whether

departmentally or by a Contractor or Contractors to the

Specification of the Consulting Engineers to be

nominated by the Corporation and appointed and paid by

the Board of Commissioners and whereas the Colonial

Government of HongKong are about to construct a British

Colonial Government Railway from the Port of HongKong

to the frontier of British Kowloon with the object of

connecting with the Chinese Railway at the frontier of

Kowloon, the Chinese Goverment hereby undertakes the

rutification of this Agreement to enter into an Agree-

ment in the terms of the craft set forth in the

Schedule here to, with the Colonial Government of

HongKong providing for the commection of the two Kailways when completed and for the working of the two Railways on the joint behalf of the said Governcients.

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