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that while the map would be most valuable from a Military

point of view he had no means of revising or reproducing

it.

3.

It was eventually decided after

consideration in Executive Council on the 28th. August,

1901, to acquire the copyright by the promise of 50 copies

of a new edition and to pay Mr. Lörcher or any other

gentleman of the Mission who might complete the work (in

the event of Mr. Lörcher who was over 60 years of age fail-

-ing to do so) a sum not exceeding $1,000 for the time

and expense he might be put to in carrying out the revision.

4.

I now transmit with printed copies

of the original map of 1879 and of the original register

of names in it, the manuscript of the revised map and of

supplementary registers of names. The map is in duplicate

on four sheets the hill features and divisions into

prefectures and districts being shown separately to the

place names for greater elearness. One of the supplementary

registers gives names within the Canton Province which did

not appear in the original register or map and the other

gives names in the neighbouring Provinces of Fuh-kien,

Kiang-hsi, Hu-nan, and Kwang-hei which have likewise been

Herewith Bill of

Lading for a case

containing the

original and re-

-vised Maps.

Original and Sup- -plementary Regist- -ers in the enve- →lope.

added to the map.

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