built on and requested that the few remaining dilapidated tombs should be removed. In reply they.
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any further free grants of land to the Mussulman Community who are mostly men of substance. They applied that the ground should be returned to them as a place where they could celebrate the Moharram, their religious festival.
5.
The Mosque is situate in a part of the town where ground is most valuable and is too small. If they sold it, it would fetch $40,000, sufficient to buy a larger piece of ground and to build a new Mosque thereon. I therefore see no reason for making any further grant.
The notice required by Art. XXXII of the standing orders and rules of the Legislative Council has been duly given.
6.
I enclose the usual report of the Attorney General, as well as copies of the correspondence that has passed between the Government and the Mussulman community.
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