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the Cook House Trial Heut at

:Kowloong diverted as

• suggested

by the Surveyor General.

But the reason

assigned for the expediency of this diversion

carried out as

viz : that the line of drain, if

originally intended by me would pass over, private property, the owner of which only

can sanction the encroachment, leads me to the consideration of - how this principle if carried out would limit and affect the rights of the War Department to drain, convey water or pass any of the lots, (some of which are

over

sold, and all I believe are

all or

open to

vale,) surrounding the War Departinent Reserve on all sides at Howloong.

The necessity for drainage and sewerage for a large number of men may at any

time arise

at Howloong where Barracks and Hospitals for 1000 men, and 950 patients are already estimated for:

Further, it is in

contemplations carry the Latrine sewage of the present occupants of the Trial Hut at Kowloong by closed drains

to

to the sea or other convenient- outlet, and it therefore becomes . necessary for me to assert and claim the right of the War:

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