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and that the
" former Colony
should pay
!
sixty thousand pounds sterling (£60,000)
per annum to place itself a
on the same
; sti co with the latter Colony.
6.
I
would also refer
also refer to the
the
observations con:
concerning · peculiar.
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position of throngkong in my recent 20- dospatch • 1.2 880 of the 17th instant.
7
Again, Hongkong hww been-
called upon to pay during
years
a dum
the nuct two
of fifty six thousand pounds
sterling (£56,000) towards the cost.
мене
of
fortifications, in addition to the
Military
the
Contribution of twenty thousand. pounds starting (£20,000) per
her annum,
8.
stated in
Majesty's
962
Moreover, as I have already,
of-188117)
any despatch N. 51 of 1884, Her
Government have already.
" sanctioned the appropriation
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existing
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of the
the
Balances and surplus revenues
" towards the axecution of the
"Works, and
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"
Water
and of the Sanitary Works, so
strongly
recommended by
•W= Chadwick
as essential for the preservation of the health alike of the Civil and of the
"Military inhabitants of this City.
will be recollected, moreover,
that-
"Your Cordship has already.n
If
Sauctioned, in principle, the raising,
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"on the exhaustion of our existing
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