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Lessrs. Reies & Co.
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March 13th, 1916.
595 send them two copies of an Agreement, one duly signed by me on behalf of my Company; and which they will no doubt accept, having referred the matter to you and knowing now that you agree to this Joint Texas Agreement with us (and a hali skare), in apite of the fact that i
not one for three years, as desired by your London riend.
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I did not reply to your cable, seeing that I had just cabled
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you in fact our cables must have crossed to "please wait Lettlement London" so as not to complicate matters again.
The Texas Company has also received from the Colonial Office
a letter with which, though not exactly giving the assurances csked for (which, as I assumed at the time, the Government would hardly give), they are quite satisfied. I have not yet seen the actual wording of this letter but Downing Street wrote to me, at the same time, that Er. Secre-
tary Bonar Law: "has caused a letter to be addressed to the Texas Com-
pany, certifying that Mesare. Reiss and Company are an entirely British firm of very old standing, and that Mr. Holyoak, the head of the fir in Hong Kong, has lately been nominated by the Hong Kong Chamber of Sou- merce as its representative on the Legislative Council of the Colony, hi appointment to which has on Mr. Bonar Lav's advice been approved by his Majesty the King."
and I take this opportunity on congratulating your Hr. Helyoak on this nomination.
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Thus everything is now plain sailing and the Texas Company end and last but not least the]
will be, that the protracted negotiations of this mat-
I are glad, and I am sure my London partner
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ter, simple in itself, have now reached finality. The difficulty was of course that the matter was worked beth from your end and by your Lon- don house, and that you did not at first seem to understand the position.
The delay thus caused
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