Draft the long Kong bay.
No 26
132964.
Relative to Military Lands at Hong Kong.
I have had under careful consideration the deep-noted in the margin Hong Kong to inform Lands at Hong Kong. I have arranged them.
Johnson 18/1 1884.
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298 486, 230c1 494 28
Enclosed in Anod 7808 Air He. Blake's desh no 297 the 18th June last.
No 298 of the conference held at the Treasury on 13th October 1903, it was agreed - subject to the approval of the Secretaries of State for War and the Colonies - that the exchanges and transfers of land should proceed as already agreed upon by the General Officer Commanding and the Colonial Government, and that the values to be recorded in the Colonial Military Lands Account should be those stated in the schedules accompanying the papers signed by the Colonial Secretary on the 4th April 1903, with the following exceptions, reservations and provisos.
(1) Rifle Ranges •
(a) that the new Ranges and Butts provided by and at the expense of the Colonial Government, to be exchanged without record of value in the Mil Lands Acct, for that portion of the King's Park occupied by the old Military Ranges, it being guaranteed and regarded.
(b) that should the Colonial Government deem it necessary to resume the new Ranges at any time after ten years, they will provide Ranges in lieu, with proper facilities as may be agreed upon between the General Officer Commanding and the Governor, and so in perpetuity, without record of value in The Mil Lands Acct.