submitted to the Executive Council on
the 7th September 1887 and the following
resolution was recorded):-
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"The Council advise that all Kowloon
Garden Lot Holders within the Military Reserves should receive Inland Lot Leases subject to the special conditions set forth in
the Surveyor General's letter, namely: To remove wholly or partially any buildings or works on their lots without right to any compensation from
the Crown, in the event of such removal
being considered necessary by the Officer Commanding the Troops in
any Foreign War.
From the terms of the above resolution of
the Executive Council it will
be seen that it went further than the
Surveyor General's letter, for the Surveyor General only referred in his letter to objection to a house within the Military area, whereas the
resolution of the Executive Council extended