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1 from elbarch next to Messrs

from

Lee-heng-Yam and Roh-Ching-

a rent of Thirty

Sean for

thousand Eight hundred

nine

$39.800.

Four

dollars per mensem, or four -hundred seventy seven thousand

and dix hundred dollars per

$477.600.

annum,

giving a

revenue

-of

#295,200.

Two hundred ninety five

thousand and two hundred

dollars per

of

annum in excess

that from the present.

contract.

present — S3/5

This satisfactory

result

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3

result is,

Ch

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is in a considerable

measure due to the new

Opium Ordinance, 22 of 1887, in" by in respect of which, and also for the assistance rendered

me in connection with the

conditions of the new Contract, the Colony is greatly indebted to Mr Russell, the "Acting Chief

Justice.

3.

There was a tender

for a larger sum than that

$1,100. accepted.

viz.

for One thousand One hundred dollars per

Juensem