CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 237

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1.

The

exact nature and

extent of the leases which have been granted of these reserved lands in

contravenhon

of

the instructions

to the Government, given in 1883, the Secretary of State for the

by

Colonies at the instance

of

the

Secretary of State for Nor and of the undertaking subsequently

to the Military

conn

eveyed

Authorities.

in letter of the Colonial Secretary to the Assistant Military Secretary

2.

dated 25th June 1887, to 985.

The willingness of the Colonial Government to grant the necessary

land for and to defray the cost of construction (up to a

maximum of £10,000) of a line of defensive works near the Kowloon frontier as an alternative to - resuming

the lands which have seen thus alienated and again reserving

for defensive ~

purposes

thou

purposes as o

originally agreed

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cxpon.

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Its regards the first head

would refer Your Excellency tv.

letters written.

by

the Assistant -

Military Secretary to the Colonial Secretary on 29th August 1889

unt

2114

and an 27

th June 1890

so auf. It is true that the Colonial

2488.

No

Secretary's letter to 2649 of 26th of August 1890 forwarded a plan

certani information.

aud

gave

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the subject but the plan subsequently, in September last,

recalled as

being

erroneous and

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has not yet been returned corrected.

On the second head I

find that the War Office proposal

for

the compromise was communica ed to the Colonial Secretary, on the 27th August 1889, who in reply conveyed

the uitination that, subject to certain reservations your

Fexcellency