CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889 — Page 388

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This notice is of no effect,

it is in contradiction.

the instructions

of the Secretory of State dated, dated

6th March 1873

385

This Commission reported that

these garden Leases might be converted

ints Building Leases

on

637/85

a premium of

the Lessee paying

cent per foot

rent per

We

8285

and specially referred.

to in the said lease-

In lave 1889, the secretons of::

to to petition from the State in answer holders of Garden Leases at Kowloon consented that the present. Parten Lesses should be converted into building leases of 75 years when the condition of the Lots being re-assessed for increased

annual

rental & a

comicvission.

composed of the acting attorney General. the surveyor general and appointed.

A.B. Johnson Esqre was

mereased premium and

This

}

to fise the

annual

rental

and £10 per quarter acre

year but

r

these

conditions for Humphreys

has up to the present refused to accept

A great deal of correspondence. took place between the stumphreys and

the

the Lolonial government respecting

the rent, and the price of the ground

conditions of the lease at length

on

the both april 1887. the Committee of the Surveyor General, the

composed

Crown Solicitor and myself finally

on which these Leases be granted. On the roth april

reported the terms

could

this report

was submitted to

the

beecutive Council, when it was decided '

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