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by the Commissioners estimating the compensations Ito be awarded, which

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entirely approved of by Lood Elgin, and transmitted to those gentlernen for

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it was

their

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By this memorandum arranged that the

claims of Proprietors, Tenants and Squatters should be estimated secharately; that the compensations should be provided for the

dispossessed in each

the persons

each case by

the

department to which the land should be ultimately appropriated, and that such Propricton

as

should

not be disporsened, should have their land regranted them free

in the same

of expense,

As

same ruanner

land is granted here to the Public by the Grown, viz:- under lease for 999 years- subject however only to the

they had before

same rent as

been limble for, to the Chinese Goverment _ This last course was morond because it was foreseen that not only much confucion and inconvenience would result

if

landed property

were held under different contitions in the same Colony, but also because the Chinese

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