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Goverment, furnish the latter with a complete inventory in

Chinese and English of the Station,

10. Without making such payments as mentioned in paragraph

9, the Government has no right to deprive the contractors of

the management of the station; and any action to this effect

on the part of the Goverment would entitle the contractors to

lave full claim as the proprietors of the station.

11. During the whole time when the responsibility of paying

the amortisažión and interest on the capital rests with the

contractors, these alone have the right to concede their rights

and duties in connection with the contract to a third person or

rm, but any deal to this effect shall first be permitted by

the Government, without whose sanction the conceding of the

company's right to a third party shall not be lawful.

13,

After the lapse of the above-mentioned thirty years the

Government shall have the right to take over the station (if

it has not done so already on the condition mentioned in paragrph

9,) without paying the contractors any compensation whatever,

whether or not the contractors have been able to get the capital

back from the working of the station. Six months' notice to

this effect shall be given the contractors, otherwise the con-

tractors shall have the right to receive 5 per cent. of the

cross takings for the next five years,

13. As soon as the Government take over the working of the

station, the whole staff for its working, keeping accounts, etc.

shall be appointed, employed, and paid by the Goverment, who

shall have the right to dismiss such of the staff as may be

found unsuited, but as long as the working of the station is in

the hands of the contractors the whole staff is appointed and

employed by them and paid out of the income of the station in

• same way as all other running expenses.

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