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123.
My Lord,
Gov
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RE
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LEVEL & JUN 9,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 17th. April, 1919.
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With reference to my Despatch No. 95 of
the 26th. March, I have the honour to report a sale of land without public auction in the form of an extension to lots already purchased, and I now submit the transaction for Your Lordship's covering authority.
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At the end of 1915, the owner of Inland Lot 1948 purchased Inland Lot 1834 and Garden Lot 47 from the owner of these lots and at the same time applied to this Government for permission to purchase the lots cross-hatched in red and blue on the enclosed plan as extensions to his property. As these areas could not have been sold separately as Inland Lots, consisting for the most part of steep hillside, Sir Henry May signified his approval of their being sold to the applicant without public auction at a premium of 25 cents per square foot and crom rent of £300 per acre per annum.
Garden Lot 47 and the extension thereto have now been converted into an Inland Lot on payment of an additional premium of 20 cents per square foot and additional crom rent at $200 per acre per annum and in February of this year the ower of the property applied for a further extension of 1,846 square feet coloured red on the plan to the West of his lot; since the grant of this further extension
secured
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
VISCOUNT HILNER, G.C.B.,
&c..
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