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legally placed under the jurisdiction of this Gost
These two points however, are not material, a Thap
to the consideration of the more important part,
of Gent Grant's letter.
In the first place Gent Grant's proposition
amounts to the conversion.
of the newly acquiria ground into a purely military cantoutuent,
separate & apart fum
the Gook of H. Kay, Whereas the very article
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If the Pekin convention, by which the cession is made,
declares the ground to be
uded "as a
of
dependency
the Coloney of H. Kor. "L
the H. Ring Goot in
originally mosting the
Acquisition of the penin-
sula of Kowloon, had in view the necessity
of
proviching for the wants of its General population
as well as
Jameson.
of the Military
The suggestion that wo
ground should be sold to
priate individuals