proposed to be ultimately erected in the Colony and that if after making the necessary provision
those requirements, it be found that any portion of the land in question can be made available for Colonial purposes,
it shall be handed over to the Colony.
I have &c. (signed) Carnarvon.
Copy forwarded to the Under Secretary of State Colonial Office.
Hongkong &c.
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Sir,
War Office, 27th September, 1866
With reference to your letters of the 6th and 20th Instant, relative to the boundary of Military Cantonments in Victoria, Hongkong, and to the correspondence which accompanied your first named communication on this subject, I am directed to acquaint you for the information of the Earl of Carnarvon, that Lieutenant General Peel will at once take steps
to ascertain the probable extent of land