^ The Loan and its Consequences 



Roberts in 1876 had been succeeded as President by 

 J. S, Payne, and this last had been followed by Anthony 

 William Gardner at the beginning of 1878. President 

 Gardner met Sir Samuel Rowe's dispatch by agreeing to the 

 meeting of that boundary commission which had been already 



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foreshadowed in Lord Granville's protocol of 1870. It was 

 decided, however, that the mixed commission of Liberian and 

 British delegates should meet at Sierra Leone on January 

 1st, 1879. The Liberian delegates arrived at that place on 

 December 29th. Through all the negotiations that followed 



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