period the land forming the Range will be resumed by the Colonial Government for Building's or Garden

for

and

"Lots - and the use of the Range interdicted

to the Troops, should this be so, the Range above referred to on M. & Lands at Victoria - also be given up,

the Troops will be without the means of their Annual Rifle

Practice

19. Before therefore ceding the Harbour lands at Victoria on which lands the Rifle Range named above - it would seem

highly desirable that either one of the three following provisos should be

accepted by the Colonial Government

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20. I quote them in the order of their desirability :

(a) the use of the present Rifle Range

at Kowloon to be secured to the Troops

as

long as any are here stationed.

(b) On the cession of the H.B. Lands

of

at Victoria, the Colonial Government

to provide a Rifle Range with Butts and firing points and with proper Roads of access - in a

suitable site

and as near as possible to the Cantonment, to the

satisfaction of the Senior or other Officer Commanding the Troops

(C) On the cession of the said lands the present Rifle Range

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