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No.61
# MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
The War Office contends that under the agreement between the three Departments, the value of the
surrendered land means in all cases the full market
value. The Colonial Office admits that the full value
of what the War Office surrenders should be assessed
as accurately as circumstances permit, and the amount
paid or recorded by the Colony; but it maintains
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that when the military authorities have only a right
of occupation or user, it is only this right that they
surrender, and that the value of the fee simple which belongs to the Colony cannot properly be included in
the assessment.
The question has become a pressing one in connection with a certain piece of land at Hong Kong
presently called the Murray Battery which has no military value
and has not been used as a Battery for at least a
quarter of a century.
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The Colonial Government desires to obtain
sanction possession of the site of this disused battery comprising about 43,832 square feet, for the purpose of erecting a new Supreme Court, The Treasury, in their letter of 17th August 1892, "hold that the Colonial
in an No buildings, wo this site.
The Colonial Government should pay to the War Department the full "market value of the battery (estimated at 40,940.)
"at once, if it is surrendered to the Colony, because