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cided to accept by way of private contract under section 14 sub-section (2) of Ordinance 1:21 of 1891 the~ offer of Lam diu Sang and Holai dang, trading together under the name of the ~ Man Fook Company, for the grant of the Opium Farm for a period of three years from the 1st March 1895 at n annical rental of $286,000 and subject to the usual terms and conditions so
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far
2.
for as applicable to the case. Tenders for the Farm originally called for
were
in the usual course, but
the highest annual rentai! offered being only $240,000,
it was not considered ad-
visable to accept it. Subse-
quently the Acting Colonial Secretary
was able to arrange
considerably better termo for the Government, and
these were
as
duly azcepted
reported above, and em_
bodied