and
Mar
at Hong Kong for
Exemption from the total due payment of ground rent on property acquired by them in the colony. I have & acquaint you that an application,
has since been
made (in June 1856)
for Relief from payment of £92.4.-
claimed as due
to the Crown for
head rent on certain premises purchased
for
443
for the store department and described as bearing
Lot No 66"
This matter has formed the subject
of a correspondence between the Store
Department and this office,
and has
received my
careful consideration.
But
a similar
in 1852
question
was raised, which
resulted in the
remission of the Colonial Government of the ground rents on property purchased