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· Colonial Government declining

· to adopt the suggestions therein made, that terms securing the -rights of the War Department __ should be inserted in leases

Contracts of purchasers of the land surrounding the War Department Property at. Howloong,

and

1 beg to recommend

that the Colonial Government.

on the

-may receive instructions on,

subject,

as it cannot but lead

to future embarrassment if

: Purchasers or Lessees

are allowed

to conclude contracts without_

being made aware of the rights which the War Department

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at any time find it necessary to

enforce .

I have 40.

(signed) Prancis Colborne,

Major-General, Commanding troops, China

and Straits Settlements.

(True Copy)

(signed) A. Bassano, Colonel,

Assistant Military Seretary.

(True Copies)

Imit

Acting Colonial Secretary