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Copy of minute by the Leasury

Mong. 6. Solicitor.

2191.

London

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I feel little doubt that the limited

construction of the resumption Clause

Sharpe's

W lawyer in

contended for by urmar his letter of the 29th June

1885 to the

Surveyor General of Hong Kong will not

hold water, and that the Colony may

safely be supported

they may

any

proceedings

be advised to take by their

Attorney General for the resumption of

these lots upon tender

or

payment nito

Court

of the Value assessed by the Surveyor

General -

But no confident opinion

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be gwen

here except upon a full statement of

the facts

and of the circumstances under which the Lease was originally granted and

the

adjoining Barracks built.

The

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The rights maybe affected by stong Hong law and the Colonial Office

might perhaps

be

usefully consulted

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