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"sterling), for the purpose of carrying it into effect, and that the Imperial Government shall guarantee the

loan,

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apprehend that ito --

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as & Her Majesty's Government have

already expressed their inability

to guarantee a HongKong public

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"could be obtained by the expedient

year

proposed of terminable 100 " annuities at 3/2 per

I have informed

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General Sargent that I agree

with him that the bulk

of the Troops and Military

Establishments should

remain, as now, in the

City of Victoria, and that for the reasons assigned the Colonial Secretary

by

and the

"Surveyor-General in their joint report, the proposed financial

co-operation