you
will state to soi John Pakington that the Committee apponitect for the purpose of enquiring into
the haval Ordnance, and Commissariat Establishments Abroad recommended the purchase. of mess. Semnell's premises as the best means of providing
commodation for the haval and Military Departments maintained for the defence of the Colony of Hong Kong, and in their
Report dated 6th February 1851. they obsowe, _ "as the annual tent of £16% 5.10 to which the premises are subject is payable to the Local Lovernment,. suggest a representation being " made to his Lordship the
we
would
the
Secretary of State for Colonies to the effect that as the Island is one which does
"
"
not
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" not pay it's own expenses,
" entails
a
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charge upon the
" imperial Lovernment; the Governor " be instructed of the necessity for "Heps being taken to obtain a " relinquishment or surrender " on the part of the Colony, of " the rent now payable out of
the "Remises, in order that the Ordnance. "Estimates
be robieved of and that the title
may
" that charge,
" to the same may fully devolve upon the Imperial Lovernment at the expiration of the by years _ (the unexpired term of the lease) . __
In the munte of this Board upon the Report My Fords directed that the necessary. Steps might be taken for completing the purchase of the premises, and they expressed their intention of communicating with the decretary
of