CO129-512-5 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 21-5-1929 - 21-5-1929 — Page 92

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

forth in the report of the Anglo-Chinese

Advisory Committes (the Buxton Committee)

pub: shed in 1926, to which the attention of

the Board of Trustees referred to below will

be invited. It appears to the Chinese

Government that the most advantageous plan for

providing such an endowment would consist in

the investment of two-thirds of the said

indemnity funds (namely the accumulated funds

now on deposit and all future instalments) in

rehabilitating and building railways in China.

The funds thus invested will be regarded as

loans advanced to the railways in question,

and the amounts which would be attributable to

the service of such loans will be applied to

educational purposes, The remaining one-

third of the total indemnity funds will in

part be similarly invested in other productive

undertakings, the revenue from which will be

devoted to educational purposes, and in part

used for educational purposes by direct

expenditure.

For the control, apportionment,

and administration of the said indemnity funds

remitted/

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