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2

70%

3

250

and

the

a

them.

for

a reduction

of

ground

rent payable

property belonging to

2

It

appears

property in

question

that the

was

originally leased to Mr a

Carter,

one

of

in the House

the partners of Aegan

C. for £337 7.3 - that

the

recommendation

and

on

of

the Committee appointed

in the Colony

in

May

reduced,

1850 this rent was

with Lord freip concurrence, to £268.7.

0- and that

a

further considerable

reduction is now

до

applied for

further appears that Mr. Carter who originally

signed the Lease has ceased

to belong to the firm of Mess? Hegan-

that the

Mess. Hegan have quitted

Hong Kong for Mauritius,

and have

Property

now no

other

in Hong Kong

than the Land referred to -

that if, therefore, they

were

to abandon this land the

fovernment could not

the conditions

except by

enforce

of the Lease

a tedious

and

expensive

a