Excerpt from Discours de Sir Charles Tupper sur les Résolutions du Chemin de Fer de Pacifique Canadien: 5 Février 1884
8. Que l'époque fixée pour le paiement de la somme de deux millions huit cent cinquante trois mille neuf cent douze piastres que la compagnie a promis de payer le ou avant le premier jour de février mil huit cent quatre-vingt-quatre (1884) comme partie du fonds mentionné dans son arrangement avec le gouvernement en date du septième jour de novembre dernier, sera retardée jusqu' au septième jour de novembre mil huit cent quatre vingt -huit alors que la somme de quatre millions cinq cent vingt sept mille piastres constituant le dernier versement à faire sur le dit fonds payable par la compagnie au gouvernement deviendra due, le tout avec intérêt payable semestriellement au taux de quatre pour cent par année, suivant qu 'il a été convenu à l'é epoque de l'exécution du dit arrangement, et que.
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