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of the 24th. instant on the subject of the Crown Rent of the
Spring Garden site, I am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor regrets that the proposal it contains
does not meet the objection to land in the Colony being held by
private persons without payment by them of Crown Rent.
2.
The case differs from those of Inland Lot
73 B situated in Queen's Road East and of Inland Building Lot
64 at Mount Austin, quoted in the first paragraph of your letter that in the Spring Gardens Property is not now permanently required
for Military purposes.
3.
A perusal of the correspondence which passed
on the occasion of the capitalization of the Crown Rent of the
first mentioned property will assist you in appreciating the
views of the Colonial and War Offices as well as of this
Government in the matter and I am accordingly directed to
enclose copies of Sir William Robinson's Despatch No. 154 of
the 10th. May and Sir Robert Meade's reply of the 8th. August,
1895,
It is scarcely necessary for me to point
out that this Goverment can raise no objection to the sale by
the War Department of the balanes of the lease of Inland Lot
No. 427 subject to the payment to the Colonial Treasury of an
annual Crown Rent of £150 and to the other conditions embodied
in the lease.
#fdervonol de Chief Engineer,
South China Command.
I have etc«
(Sd.) T. Sercombe Smith,
Ag. Colonial Secretary