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"on the plans of Mas Department property; "In this Office » Affon this Mr Moran reports as follows "The Boundary Stone has been placed at the spot indicated "by Lieutenant Colonel De Butts R.E., and the marks on the stone are recorded "upon the Plan.
I have to-day seen "the Commanding Royal Engineer who "informs me he is perfectly satisfied "with the arrangements "that have been made."
His Excellency is, however, prepared to consider any objections which may be urged against rendering satisfaction to any individual claimant, and if the Military Authorities feel so disposed, he will be glad to submit the different cases to arbitration so that a perfectly fair arrangement may be arrived at, for His Excellency quite agrees that it would be very undesirable to award compensation to encroachers upon Military Department Ground whose occupation is perfectly reasonable and against whom no complaint is made.
In urging the settlement of these claims, His Excellency is simply desirous of seeing justice done to the sufferer. The aggregate amount, as represented in money, is very small, but to the individual Chinese themselves much more is represented by the figures against their names than the actual amounts on paper show, and it will be...