CO129-512-4 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 22-12-1928 - 9-5-1929 — Page 142

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by the Buxton Advisory Committee. Further, as

an i mediate contribution to the educational

purposes of the fund it is the desire of the

Tational Government that out of the

accumulation now on deposit a sum of £200,000

should be transferred to Hongkong University

and a sum of £200,000 should be placed at the

disposal of the Universities Committee in

London for the assistance of Anglo-Chinese

studies. It is also their intention as future

instalments become due that besides the

principal purpose of railway rehabilitetion

they shall ales be partly applied to immediate

educational purposes within the scope of the

recommendations of the Buxton Committee. If

these proposals recommend themselves to His

Majesty's Government the National Government

will proceed to appoint a Board of Trustees to

edminlater the fund on these lines.

4.

In reply to such a communication His

Majesty's Government would agree to remit

forthwith to the unfettered control of the

National/

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