CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 23

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legally placed under the jurisdiction of this Gost

These two points however, are not material, a Thap

to the consideration of the more important part,

of Gent Grant's letter.

In the first place Gent Grant's proposition

amounts to the conversion.

of the newly acquiria ground into a purely military cantoutuent,

separate & apart fum

the Gook of H. Kay, Whereas the very article

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If the Pekin convention, by which the cession is made,

declares the ground to be

uded "as a

of

dependency

the Coloney of H. Kor. "L

the H. Ring Goot in

originally mosting the

Acquisition of the penin-

sula of Kowloon, had in view the necessity

of

proviching for the wants of its General population

as well as

Jameson.

of the Military

The suggestion that wo

ground should be sold to

priate individuals