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the whole period the above 30 Chinese bring still to let hav Colonial Keretary
the 11 June last
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dated the 2144 January 1895 Your Petitioner requested habe not charged the rates for the mouth of lunly for the said two houses in question having given written notice to the said Treasurer on the 15th June 1894 of such houses bring vacant and taking into consideration the notifications to him by the said éticasurer of the 14th July 1894 aborr reforred
rred to and that the houses referred to were wholly vacant di
aut during the whole of the mouth of Inly 1894- T0 this application your Petitioner received a reply informing him that His Excellency the Governor &
: was unable to grant his request. and on the 30th January 1895 Your Petitioner paid the said 3rd quarters kats 1894 for the said houses 17 Pottuiger and 30 chinese; Streets amounting togethan to the sum of $25:88 cents under protest.
16. The notification of the 14th July 1894 referred to in Saragraph 13. of this Petition lead Your Petitioner not to pay the Rates as he would have done in the usual case of vacant houses before the end of the first month of the then quarter right the 31st July thus ruabling him to obtain the return of the tax on the ground of the houss bring vacant houses". the word "reopened "being misleading in every. word and being taken by Your Sefitiouer to mean when the houses were occupied by knants -
sense again
of the
17. If it is Your Petitioner is to pay Hates for the mouth of July lust then ta will have paid rates for these two houses during the whole of the months of June and Inly when such houses 17 Pottinger and 304 hinese Streets were unoccupied
16 from the 11th June last norents:
ats shaving been received from the 5th May previously as regards 17 Sottriger Street a period of nearly Three kalendar mouths with the exception of the 12th Hoor of such houss and no rents having been received from the 4th one previously as regards 30 kchinese Streck
18. Your Sentener in a letter to the Honourable the acting bolonial Sewdary dated the 26th September 1894 referring to the said two houses 17 Bottiger and 30 bftrinese Streets so closed desvied to br informed when the Government intended so compensate him for the losses he had sustained in consequence of such houses bring clend and in reply your Ictitioner received a letter from the said acting leolonial Serotarydand the 28th September 1894 informing him that the question of compensation in respect of the said houses was under the consideration of Appendix Neste.87. The Government. Such letters are set out in the Appendix hereto / Appendix 14677) 19. Your Petitioner funding it necessary. sent to the Hong Kong Government on the 34chnuary 1895, particulars of his losses caused by the closing of said two