For military purposes "all & say this debt has painted And never admitted that their blogs Mieu permitted its to accept this liability Funeral For auf ou with refia & send & for thigh If to last para. letter to two rulosed in P 385 of 1950 iguo copy of it para domen to • 8186 3. Set. Decentor derfakle 395-31 pasa "account" of 33898 werd "account pards of draft a 328981 раз 2. part. If this letter explaing for that in view of the concr inclosed in desfath 13015/95 hon de doo not curander it necessary funther the in to press the question of the money. question bring paid over at over waread of smaning to the crodik of the Colony La Recount in th aliu Special Guy 28/11
It is requested that in any further corn-munication on this subject, the following Number may be quoted; and the Letter addressed to--
The Under Secretary of State, War Office, "Works." Londen, S.W. Hong Kong 8/128 (F.11). sir, 592 0.0. 41984 WAR OFFICE LONDON S.W. & (REG 27 NOV 01
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27 November 1901, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th ultimo, 33898/1901, relative to a claim for payment to the Colonial government of Hong Kong on account of land transferred to the War Department.
I am to inform you in reply that the Secretary of State for War is prepared to agree that the existing credits in favour of the Colony shall stand in the Colonial Military Lands account, and eventually act in reduction of any debits which may be raised against the Colony in the same account.
I am however to observe with regard to paragraph 4 of your letter under reply that it is not understood how paragraph 35 of the Report of the Committee on Colonial Military Contributions can be held to have been superseded by the circular despatches of the 9th June 1890 and 30th December 1894,
The report of the Committee recommended that the Colony should be liable to provide lands for
The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office. military