and commenced to dig ditches and erect sign-posts without reference to the occupants, The ground being mortgaged, the natives reported matters to the foreign mortgages who informed the ae representatives of the facts of the case. They were curtly requested to apply to the Tuotai by whoas permission the Railway engineers asserted they were occupying the ground in question age beyond the 3,500 mow boundaries. tothe Taotai, and the latter io ils inter:
native mortgagors sent in petition
view with them distinctly stated that the salons, pardon me, the Chines Eastern being beyond the boundaries, the Railway' representatives, hnd no right to annex same, and that their action was
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