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the previous year's. The lots for which leases were issued were of the following categories:
Hong Kong Island
Inland Lots, Hong Kong
Rural Building Lots Aberdeen Inland Lot
Ap Lei Chau Inland Lot
Kowloon
Kowloon Inland Lots
New Kowloon
New Kowloon Inland Lots
Kwun Tong Inland Lots
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Surrenders of Land to Crown
54. 382 Deeds of Surrender comprising 529 lots or sections of lots were prepared and put through by the Land Office. Most of these sur- renders were required in connexion with exchanges negotiated by Govern- ment for public purposes and with regrants of land. Many of the remaining surrenders were free surrenders of portions of scavenging lanes being taken over by Government. Only in a relatively small number of cases, mostly having to do with street widening, was anything paid by Govern- ment for the surrender. The total amount paid in 1963-64 was $625,888.
Naval, Military and Air Force Lands
55. The Land Office maintains registers of all lands held by the Admiralty, War Department and Air Ministry, and is responsible for preparing all documents relating thereto. The year's major transactions were (a) the formal surrender by the Admiralty of the various component parts of the land comprising the former Naval Dockyard which the Admiralty had agreed to surrender in consideration of the sum of £7,000,000 payable by instalments commencing on 1st July 1960, and (b) the surrender by the War Department of the adjacent Wellington Barracks, most of which had for many years been occupied by the Admiralty as H.M.S. Tamar, in consideration of the sum of $24,000,000 credited to the War Department in the Military Lands Account.
Acquisition of Land by Charities
56. The Charities (Land Acquisition) Ordinance, 1958, provides that land shall not be assured to or for the benefit of or acquired or possessed by or on behalf of or for the benefit of any charity as defined
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