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To the Right Honourable Lieutenant Colonel
LEOPOLD CHARLES MAURICE STENNETT AMERY
His Majesty's Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
The Humble Petition of the undersigned,
Landholders of New Kowloon in the New
Territories, in the Colony of Hongkong,
sheweth as follows:-
1.
That your Petitioners are Landholders at New Kowloon in
the New Territories in the Colony of Hongkong,which is a part of
the land which was leased to the British Government under the Con-
vention between Great Britain and China signed at Peking on the
9th day of June 1898.
2. That by the terms of the said Convention it was under-
stood that there would be no expropriation or expulsion of the
inhabitants of the district included within the extension, and that
if land was required for public offices fortifications or the like
official purposes, it should be bought at a fair and reasonable
price.
3. That the Government of Hongkong has for some time past
been resuming land in New Kowloon for public purposes,under the
powers conferred upon them by the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance
of 1900 and that under this Ordinance the Government of Hongkong
has power to resume any land which is required for a public purpose
and that in this Ordinance a resumption for a public purpose is
defined as resumption, inter alia,for any purpose which the Governor
in
1.