No.
171.
Hongkong.
প
731
C. 0.
27157
(64 31 JUL 05!
Government House,
Hongkong, 29th. June, 1905.
Sir,
Admy
B888
1903
Adany
6632
I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your Despatch No. 112 of the 24th. ultimo,
enquiring whether I saw any objection to giving an assur-
-ance that the land round Long Harbour, shown on a plan
accompanying the Admiralty Letter (D.W.1446/3072) to the
Colonial Office dated the 15th. April, 1903, should not be
alienated without Admiralty concurrence being first obtained.
2.
I would point out in the first
instance that the boundary of the proposed Admiralty Re-
-serve comprises an area of approximately 10 Square Miles
of which about 4 Square Miles is land, and that it includes
the three Islands, viz.:- Tap Mun or Grass Island, Port
Island, and North Cau, and some 9 or 10 villages or hamlets
with the cultivated land belonging thereto. For the houses
in these villages and for the fields adjoining them I have
recently as required by law issued appropriate titles to
those
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
80-1
800.2
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