Copy.
Sir,
Enclosure No. 6.
C.R.C.C. 2784(CE).
61
Headquarters,
China Command, Hong Kong,
8th September, 1933.
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See 84.
Victoria Cantonment, W. D. Lot No.6.
With reference to your letter L.0.No.93/1933 dated
4th February, 1933, and the draft Memorandum of Transfer
submitted under cover of your L. 0. No.1787/1929 dated 21st
November, 1929.
2.
I am instructed to inform you that the Army
Council agree to the proposed regularisation of the tenure
of Victoria Cantonment but point out that the draft Memorandum
referred to above is open to the objection that it would convert
into ordinary Colonial Military Land certain leasehold
properties for the leasehold interest in which the War Department
has paid cash. If such properties were treated as Colonial
Military Land the War Department would be entitled, in the
event of surrender, to no more than a credit in the Colonial
Military Lands Account. The War Department however must claim
in such an event, payment in cash for the value of the residue
of the leases.
It is therefore requested that the wording of
the draft memorandum be modified to ensure that cash will be
paid by the Colonial Government on surrender instead of a credit
and that the plan be amended to record these leaseholds.
3. As regards the Memorandum of Surrender I am
instructed to say that the rmy Council are not aware of any
need to vary or define further the Department's title to the
leasehold areas and consider that the draft should not be
completed.
The Land Officer,
Land Office, Courts of Justice,
Hong Kong.
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