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Major General Commanding
on the subject of Military
Reserves at British Kowloon.
2.
The subject is so
important that I
give
a brief history of the previous
events, as set forth in
the
opinion of Mr Ackroy, Acting
Attorney General
re
Lots 48, 49 and 50, the property
of Mr G. A. Coy.
I think I am able now
to place this complicated
matter clearly before His
Excellency.
See
CO 8829/13
In answer to their
Petition to the Secretary of
State
praying
that their
"Garden Leases" might be
"converted into Crown Leases,
or Rural Buildings Leases,
Messrs Holmes, Alves and others
were
on the 12th of July 1883
"informed by
the Colonial
Secretary that their application
was granted,
and
"that on certain conditions their Garden
Leases would be extended, the
letter