instructions may be issued for the necessary legal
document to be prepared.
I am
Sir,
COPY.
Your' obedient Servant,
(sd.) Wm.LEITCH,
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Shanghai, 6th February,
22.
Mr. Reavel1, H.M.0.W., London,
With reference to your telegram of 2nd instant.
Report forwarded on January 27th, position is LS
follows:
Government of Hong Kong is desirous of sub-
leasing Yamen, Canton, from Office of Works for a period
of twenty years at the rent of 350 dollars per annum
for purposes of erecting buildings for Cadets. No
objection, provided that no future liability of any,
kind in respect of buildings erected by Goverment
of Hong Kong is accepted by Office of Works. H.M,Minister
at Peking and Consul-General at Canton concur.
Government of Hong Kong desire clause to be inserted
in Lease to the effect that, in the event of premises
being again required by Imperial Government before
expiration of Lease, the Lessors should pay compensation
for the buildings to the Lessees, No probability of
this contingency arising and it is considered
undesirable to commit the Office of Works by any such
undertaking. For political reasons the Consul-General
considers it undesirable to relinquish Crown rights over
the