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Minute by the Attorney General
W. Meigh Goodman
The letter from General Black of 18th March asks for a reply to his former letter Nr 239/18 of 16th January 1897. The former letter asks that the Governor should put on record the view of the Colonial Government
to the general position of Lands held as "Military Reserve" and as to the reason why, as the General gathers from the Governor's letter, N. 181/3 of 25th December 1896 (on the subject of lands at Hong Kong) they are not, in the view of the Colonial Government, to be considered to be coming under the terms laid down in the Secretary of States' Circular of 30th December 1894, which deals with "lands the fee simple of which