Note 171 — Chapter II · THE “CASSINI CONVENTION” AND THE RAILWAY AGREEMENT

Confirmed by the Czar on December 4/16, presented to the Ruling Senate on December 8/20, and finally published in the Bulletins des Lois on December 11/23, 1896. See an English translation of their text in the British Parliamentary Papers, Russia, No. 1 (1898), and China, No. 1 (1900), pp. 57–61; a Japanese translation in Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 495–500. At the further extension of the railway by the agreement of March 27, 1898, supplementary statutes were promulgated on February 5, 1899. See ibid., pp. 516–520.