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for law reports; purchasers of these reports will contri-
-bute the balance of their cost. The addition of $5,000 to
the usual item for Medicines and Surgical Appliances is to
make provision of a reserve for war, with regard to which
I have already been in communication with you. The small
new item of $480 for a Government School at Tai Po
the
2nd. in the New Territories is justified by the present
-
size of that small market town which is the Government Head
-quarters in the Territories, by its probable rapid develop
-ment when provided with the improved communications con-
-templated for it and by the fact that its population is
one of British subjects tied to the locality by their fish-
-ing and agricultural avocations.
7.
With regard to Extraordinary
Public Works, and dealing in the first instance with new
Buildings, I would add to the remarks made to the Legisla-
-tive Council that the preparation of plans for the new
Convict Prison ($40,000) has had to await the determination
of the exact line which will be followed by the Canton-
-Kowloon Railway, South of the Kowloon Hills, as the site
selected for the building was in the probable vicinity of
that line. A decision has now been come to and the plans
for the prison have been put in hand.
The