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tion price to be expended in accordance with the designs and instructions of the consulting engineer.
10. That the Manchurian Government will appoint Mr. Jeme Tien Yen as their consulting engineer.
11. That the plans and specifications shall be submitted to the said consulting engineer for approval.
12. That during the time of construction the consulting engineer or his repre sentative shall constantly visit the works, and should he find that the works are not being constructed in accordance with the plans and specifications approved upon, duc notice shall be given to Messrs. Pauling and Co. (Limited) for the changes.
13. That Messrs. Pauling and Co. (Limited) agree to construct the line from Hsin Min-fu to Fakumen in a first-class manner with all necessary works and including provision of 10 per cent. for sidings, passing places, and accommodation lines to ballast quarries, &c., for the sum of 6,500l. per English mile, payable in London in two instalments, first instalment when the works are half completed, second instalment when the works are completed and handed over to the Government.
14. The Government of Manchuria will purchase or procure sufficient rolling stock and in due time for contractors' use in construction.
15. The line to be completed in eighteen months or two years, according to the season at which the works are commenced.
16. The usual force mujeure conditions shall apply as far as they are applicable to the contract terms.
17. That this agreement is to be considered a preliminary one pending the approval of the Board of Communications in Peking and the Imperial sanction.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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(No. 450.) Sir,
No. 1.
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Rrof 11 FEB 10 [January 22.]
SECTION 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received January 22, 1910.)
WITH reference to my despatch No. 408 of the 10th ultimo, I have the honour
Peking, December 7, 1909. to transmit to you herewith copy of a further despatch from His Majesty's consul at Chefoo, giving details respecting the proposed construction of a railway from Chefoo to Wei-Hsien.
If the necessary funds are not forthcoming locally, capable agents are to be sent to every part of the Empire to enlist mouetary support for the scheme. The management of the enterprise is to be entirely in the hands of the shareholders. Surveying is to begin towards the end of the present Chinese year, and it is contem- plated that construction work will be started three or four months later.
It will be interesting to watch the progress of a scheme so entirely dependent upon private initiative and public co-operation.
I have, &c.
Enclosure in No. 1.
J. N. JORDAN,
Consul Mortimore to Sir J. Jordan,
(No. 16.) Sir,
Chefoo, November 25, 1909. REFERRING to my despatch No. 14 of the 3rd instant on the subject of the revived interest shown here in the Chefoo-Woi-Hsien Railway scheme, I have now the honour to forward a copy of the rules and regulations drawn up by the chamber of commerce for the collection of the necessary funds to start the scheme, which have been widely published here.
At a meeting of the chamber of commerce held on the 7th November, it was decided that if the necessary funds could not be raised in Chefoo capable agents should be sent to every port in the Empire to enlist support to the project; also that the railway should be entirely managed by the shareholders, and that there was to be no official supervision thereof, except in the event of difficulties arising with the Germans, in which case the officials would be appealed to to settle the matter. It was proposed that the survey of the line should be begun about the end of the Chinese year, and that work should be commenced three or four months afterwards.
At a meeting of the chamber on the 17th November, the following directorate was elected by secret ballot :----
Director
Mr. Sun Wen shan, of the Heng Hsing Tê firm.
Associate Directors-
Mr. Wan K'un shan, mauager of the Chien ] Fêng Bank.
Mr. Liu Shong san, of the Wan Shuu Hêng firm.
Mr. Li Tsai chih, of the E Shun firm.
Mr. Tan Hsu-kü, compradore of Anz and Co., a German firm.
I have, &c.
R. H. MORTIMORE,
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