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the letter of guarantee of the Board of Posts and Communications attached to this Agreement.

Signed at Peking in duplicate, one copy being retained by each Contracting Party, this 10th day of November, 1908, Western calendar, being the 17th day of the 10th mouth of the 34th year of the Emperor Kuang Hsü,

(For the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation),

(Signed) E. G. HILLIER, Agent.

(Seal of the Chiao-tung Bank.) Two Chinese signatures.

(Translation.)

Inclosure 2 in No. 1.

Official Despatch of the Yu-chuan Pu.

WHEREAS on the 17th day of the 10th month of the 34th year of Kuang Hsü, being the 10th day of November, 1908, Western calendar, the Chiao-tung Bank executed an Agreement with your bank, by the terms of which it was agreed to lend 3,000,000 tacls Shanghae sycee, interest to be at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, and principal and interest to be repaid in full on the 10th March, 1909. This Board now specially prepares a despatch to serve as a guarantee acknowledging that the Chiao-tung Bank, on the principal and interest of this loan becoming due, will band the amount in full to the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank in Shanghae. Moreover, the 1,000,0007. balance of the loan borrowed by this Board on the 14th day of the 9th month of the 34th year of Kuang Hsü (the 8th October) can be taken as a security. Your bank is requested to take note accordingly. On complete repayment of this loan, this despatch should be returned for cancellation.

A despatch to the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, 17th day of the 10th month of the 34th year of Kuang Hsu (the 10th November).

(Seal of the Yu-chuan Pu.)

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