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any part of it which

is likely to become the site of the principal Town or of any Seaport Town

which is

likely to be required for Military Defences, The Site of any Public Works of utility, or ornament, or public

recreation

Considering

how great is the value of all such localities

and with what avidity they

in every new

are solicited for.

and with what facility they are usually granted, and at how ruinous an

expense they must be repurchased for the public Service, It appears to Lord Stanley

that it would be

very good frith

to

any past or future

surrender

of them to

even if

private uses, even if there were no special inducement for husbanding the public resources. This necessity appears to his Lordship still

more evident when it is borne in mind, that the proposed establishment

of a Free Port at

Hong Kong will, exhaust all the other resources of the local Govt and reduce them to the

necessity of deriving a large portion of the charges of maintaining

the local Establishment.

But at the

general

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any part of it which is likely to become the site of the principal Town or of any Seaport Town which is likely to be required for Military Defences, The Site of any Public Works of utility, or ornament, or public recreation Considering how great is the value of all such localities and with what avidity they in every new are solicited for. and with what facility they are usually granted, and at how ruinous an expense they must be repurchased for the public Service, It appears to Lord Stanley that it would be very good frith to any past or future surrender of them to even if private uses, even if there were no special inducement for husbanding the public resources. This necessity appears to his Lordship still more evident when it is borne in mind, that the proposed establishment of a Free Port at Hong Kong will, exhaust all the other resources of the local Govt and reduce them to the necessity of deriving a large portion of the charges of maintaining the local Establishment. But at the general
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any part of it which

го

is likely to become the site the principal Town or of any Seaport Youn

which es

likely to be required for Natitary Defences, The Site of airy hublic Works of utility, or ornament, or publee

ev ho

recreation

Considering

haw great is the votul of all such localitites

Colary with what avedity they

in every new

are solicited with.

ou

what faulity they ar usually granted, and at how rummond an

expense they must be repurchased for the public Service, It appears to Lord Stanley

that it would be

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25

tightly archidiet unpictifiable to zonetton

any post or future

surrender

of them to

even if

private uses, even there were no special indial for husbanding the public resomees. Paul this necessity appear this Lordship sull

move evident when d is borne in mind, that the proposed exteblich.

-ment

of a Free Nost at

greatly

HongKong will, artait all the other resouces of the local Gort and resuse them to the

necessity of direct lactation a fone of the chi looking to the Land as

писало

the

of maintaining

the local Estatitiohmment.

But at th

general

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