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Copy of minute by the Leasury
Mong. 6. Solicitor.
2191.
London
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I feel little doubt that the limited
construction of the resumption Clause
Sharpe's
W lawyer in
contended for by urmar his letter of the 29th June
1885 to the
Surveyor General of Hong Kong will not
hold water, and that the Colony may
safely be supported
they may
any
proceedings
be advised to take by their
Attorney General for the resumption of
these lots upon tender
or
payment nito
Court
of the Value assessed by the Surveyor
General -
But no confident opinion
Çaw
be gwen
here except upon a full statement of
the facts
and of the circumstances under which the Lease was originally granted and
the
adjoining Barracks built.
The
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The rights maybe affected by stong Hong law and the Colonial Office
might perhaps
be
usefully consulted
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