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Reference
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Copy of a letter from the W.O. forwarding
a
Report by the Joint
Naval & Military Committee on this subject.
It will be remembered
that the Colery orignall defined in
the Royal Charter of
5th April 1843
consistiry
as dis
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Island of thingking
"it's dependencies situate
"between 22°9 and 22°21′
"North Latitude
A
and
114° 6' and 114° 18' East
"Longitude", but by
this definition it was
not intended to include
I thin
willing the area
Colony every
Islander
Islet falling
281 within
those lives of latitude
thegitude, but only the Island of Hwagting tlf itself &
تان
defendencies "proper, or
lying
in other words, the small islets.
close around it.
Subsequently
however
under of the Peking Curvention
་་
of 24 Oct. 1860. the
Colony
wa
extended
so as to cumbrace that
portion of the township
of
a
Kowloon
of which
in
lease was granted in "perpetuit to Harry
"Smith Parkering. He,
d that lease included
as wellas Stonecutter's Island
not only the souther part of
the Kowlom.
Peninsula.