No.5/4.
Hongkong.
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C. O.
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Government House, 22 DEC 02'
Hongkong, 19th. November, 1902.
sir,
I have the honour to transmit for your
consideration the enclosed schedule (with map attached) of
the building lots granted on yearly leases under the authority
of your Despatch No. 218 of the 30th. August, 1895, and to You
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recommend that the yearly leases be converted into leases for
with the usual option of renewal, on the terms as
75 years,
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to premium and Crown Rent set out in the Enclosure No. 3 hereto.
I also recommend the extensions shewn on the plan
to the lots 1537 - 1541. These lots are occupied by cow-sheds
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by Chinese Dairymen and the proposed extensions are required
for annexes such as cookhouses, store-sheds etc.
Lots Nos. 1575 and 1576 were not granted under
authority of the Despatch above referred to, but were granted
on yearly leases under similar circumstances in 1899. Lots
No s. 1581
2.
1583 were bought at auction in 1900.
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It is desirable to convert all these year-
ly leases and to grant the extensions in order to induce the
occupiers to erect Sanitary dwellings on the lots.
This they cannot be expected to do under a yearly
tenure only.
3.
I have therefore to recommend the scheme
to
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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