300

440

" reducing their net cost to about "£137,000, that the Imperial

two-thirds of

"Government shall

the charge,

&

"

pay

or about £92,000 and

" that the Colonial Government shall

"pay the balance or about £46,000,

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providing also sites for the new Barracks on

Crown lands-

The proposal, therefore,

means

that the

Imperial Government should give up sites "worth £125,000 and spend £92,000

in cash : that the Colony should find

new

sites

on

Crown lands, and should

spend £46,000 in cash, in addition

the lands they purchase

"" to the Value of

the War Department.

from

I am to refer you

to

the War Office letter of

this day's

date

Hong Kong 2, in

reply

to the Treasury

4279

Sommer

letter of the 12th October, raising

of

the points alluded to in this letter.

The only

other point raised

in the Treasury letter of

the 12th ultimo,

is

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