COPY.
Enclosure 2.
No. A/2875/11.
Your Excellency,
Head Quarters,
Hongkong, 14th. May, 1908.
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In accordance with instructions recently
received from the War Office, I am now prepared to continue
negotiations on the subject of a proposed road at North Point
from the point where they were left by my letter to. A/2875/10,
dated 16th. January, 1906,
2.
My instructions are, generally, that Military
land may be transferred by lease or agreed arrangement to the
Colony without any payment being made, a proper value being credit-
-ed on paper to the War Department, such transactions being
"governed by the Colonial Office Circulars on this subject".
3.
I am also instructed that land required from
the Colony by the War Department may be regularly assessed and
the value debited against the War Drpartment credit in the Colonial
Military Lands Account.
4.
With regard to North Point, I am prepared to
repeat the offer made by Colonel L. E. Brown in his letter
No. A/2875/6, dated 31st. October, 1904, subject to the follow-
-ing modifications.
(a). As pointed out in my letter No. A/2875/9, dated
5th. January, 1906, I consider that the proposed road will be of
little or no value to the War Department, and that consequently
the value of 20 cents per square foot as estimated by Your Excel- -lency for the land proposed to be transferred to the Colony is inadequate, and that a fair valuation would be 35 cents per square foot, amounting, for the whole area of 81,698 square feet,
to