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Reference

C.O.537

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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

人

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.