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Your minute of 12 August. I have asked for various papers from the Public Record Office which I hope will help to answer your questions. Meanwhile you may find it useful to have the following information, subject to clarification and amplification when the papers arrive.
a New Territories/Kowloon Peninsula boundary
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The lease granted to Sir Harry Parkes (then British Commi- ssioner in Canton) by the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi in March 1860 defined the northern boundary of the territory covered by the lease as "a line drawn from a point near to but south of the Kowloon fort to the northern- most point of Stonecutter Island". The 1858 Convention of Peking provided for the cession to the British Crown of this territory (described as the "portion of the township of Kowloon" which had been leased to Parkes). Thus, although the Convention did not specify its location the boundary specified in the lease to Parkes became the boundary between British and Chinese territory until 1898 when the adjacent area (part of the "New Territories") was leased to Britain. Since then it has been the boundary between the ceded and leased territories (subject to any modification which may have been made as a result of the surveys, specified in the 1898 Convention if these dealt with this boundary as well as with the boundaries separating the New Territories from China).
Map of the boundaries of the New Territories as fixed in 1898 I assume your need is for maps) accepted by British and Chinese officials (besides that annexed to the 1898 Conven- tion). Such maps may have resulted from the surveys stipu- lated in the Convention. I have asked Library to obtain these from the Public Record Office.
Location of the city of Kowloon in 1898
The approximate location is shown on the map attached to the Convention of Peking with the name "Kowloon" given in Chinese (九 龍
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report by J H Stewart Lockhart (then Colonial Secretary) in August 1898:
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Kowloon is situated about a quarter of a mile from the sea shore. It is enclosed by a stone wall built in 1847, forming as nearly as possible a parallelogram, measuring 700 feet by 400 feet, and enclosing an area of 62 acres. Lockhart added that the inhabitants of the city consisted entirely of the military garrison (numbering 544) and some 200 civilians dependent on the military. The city was then as noted. enclosed in a wall (later demolished). A street which ran (above) from the south gate of the city to the Lung Chun Pier,
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