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presentation of a certificate from the Police Inspector that the hut is removed, the Surveyor General may issue warrants for the payment of the several amounts as fixed by the Commission, these occupiers are all squatters were never recognized by the Mandarins, but in some few instances are supposed to have purchased the ground from one branch of the Tung family; this subject is referred to by the Commission: the value put upon the Premises is merely that of the buildings.
The rights of the Tung family to sell this Sand are disputed by the Kumteen branch, but neither right was sanctioned by the Chinese Government, and no rent was ever paid for it or for any uncultivated Sand in the whole district, so that the Tungs in reality have no status on the Peninsula, except under the Actual Title Deeds they exhibit, and these, there can be no doubt, are as incorrect and fraudulent as any of the others.
Should His Excellency approve of the plan I have submitted for the development of the further end of the Peninsula, in Connexion with the Cantonment, it will be necessary to purchase the whole of the plots M1 inclusive, the huts on the Coast and the Village of Chim-sa-tow; this latter has not been valued in detail; indeed it might be allowed to remain intact until the area be required for other Public Works.
In the whole of the Peninsula there are