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APPENDIX. 
Documents relating to a Concession of Authoriti/ to laij a Narrow Gauge 
Bailway on Common Boacls in the Department of the Mcuse. 
AGliEEMENT. 
A.D. eigliteen Imiulrcd ami sixty-seven, October 10. Between M. Hippo- 
lyte Rousseau, Prefect of the Meuse, acting in the name and on the account of 
the Department of the Meuse, in pursuance of the decisions of the Council- 
General of the Mouse, held at the Meetings of August 20 and 21, 1875, on the 
one jiart ; and M. Leon Soulie, civil engineer, residing in Paris, 96 Avenue 
de Villiers, acting on his own account, on tlic other part; it has been cove- 
nanted and agreed as follows : — 
Article 1. — The Prefect of the Meuse concedes to M. Soulie above mea- 
tioned the narrow gauge railway to be laid down on the side-spaces of the 
high roads and ways of the Department of the Meuse, starting from Hairon- 
ville, passing by or near Ville-sur-Saulx, Lisle-en-Kigault, Robert-Espagne, 
Beurey, Couvonges, Mogneville, Revigny, Brabant-le-Koi, Noyers, Auzecourt, 
Laheycourt, Yillette-devant-Louppy, Lisle-en-Barrois et Vaubecourt, and ter- 
minating at Triancourt. 
Tlie whole in accordance with the clauses and conditions of the estimate 
annexed to the present treaty. 
Article 2. — On his part, M. Soulie binds himself to construct and work the 
said railway referred to in the present concession within three years from the 
date of the approbation of the plan. 
Article 3. — The party to whom the concession is granted will receive for 
the construction of this road a total subsidy of 55,066^. (fr. 1,312,667). 
1. The Department will pay fr. 10,000 per kilometre (640?. per mile), 
and for the 61 kilometres forming the entire length of the line (24,400/.), 
fr. 610,000. 
This sum will be paid in twelve parts, on the 1st of January and the 1st of 
July of each year, alter the party who has obtained the concession shall have 
deposited the plans. 
Nevertheless, neither of these payments will be made unless the contractor 
iias proved that he has spent double the sum, either in the shape of works 
or of plant. 
Besides, the Department will pay to the contractor a fixed sum of fr. 50,000 
(2000?.), as au indemnity for all such works which will have to be done at 
such parts where the above-mentioned railway would be obliged to abandon 
the side-spaces of the high roads and ways, as well as for all other works for 
the purpose of access and of jimction. This payment will be made on the 
same conditions and at the same dates as the preceding ones, viz. : — 
(2000/.) fr. 50,000. 
2. Subsidy of the communes (parishes) .. (1980/.) .. fr. 49,500 
3. Subsidy of manufacturing tirms .. .. (3500L) .. fr. 87,500 
4. Land furnished by the parishes, valued at (4480Z.) .. fr. 112,000 
5. Subsidy applied for from the Government,) 
by application of Art. 5 of tlie law of (16,146/.) .. fr. 403,667 
July 12, 1865 ) 
Article 4. — The person holding the concession will have the right, after 
obtaining a decree of public utility, of forming a limited liability company for 
the emission of stock, shares, and debentures. A company formed in this 
manner may take the place of the person holding the concession, and become 
jointly and severally responsible towards the Department for all the engage- 
ments which the said person may have entered into with the latter. 
