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THE BRITISH AND CHINESE CORPORATION. LIMITED? -

graphic Address:

CAMERIST, LONDON"

PRE FOR USE

CASTORN

No. 88.

22. Abchurch Lane,

3. Lombard Street, London; 6.6.

EXTRACT FROM LETTER DATED FEBRUARY 16TH. 1906 TO MESSRS. JARDINE,

MATHESON & CO., HONGKONG.

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By this mail we send 25 reprints of the Agreement in which have

been embodied all the alterations we have received from time to time.

Also the following:-

Addition to line 3 of Article 1 respecting amount of Loan as fure:

nished by you to Sir E. Satow on the 12th. January.

Deficiency paragraph to be inserted in Article 2 as furnished by

you to Sir E. Satow on the 12th. January.

Article 23. The wording prescribed by Sir E. Satow and sent to us

by Mr. Ross on September 1st. 1905.

To meet the possible contingency that you might not wish these

three alterations made at the present time we have had separate

reprints of the pages (viz: 4, 6 and 34) on which they occur but

omitting these alterations, and we send you 24 copies of each so that

if you desire to do so you can substitute them for the corresponding

pages in the 25 Revises.

As regards the amended wording of Article 1 as to the amount of

Loan, viz:-

"not exceeding £1,500,000 sterling in addition to the amount

"required to pay for land etc."

we take it that this will not be so expressed in the final text but that the amount for the land will be agreed upon and then an inclusie fixed sum inserted as the amount of the Loan and it is most important

that the amount of the Loan should be specified definitely as so

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