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2. As the Surveyor General reports that your Lot 671 is of the same character and value as the adjoining Lots 670 and 672 portions of which have been also recently re-entered by the Crown His Excellency is unable in justice to your neighbours to sanction in your case any increase to the rate of indemnity which was awarded to them after a fair and impartial valuation.
GRANVILLE SHARP, Esq.,
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Sd.) FREDERICK STEWART.
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Crown Lessee of Inland Lot No. 671.
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Hon. FREDERICK STEWART, L.L.D.,
Sir.
Hongkong, 18th August, 1885.
Acting Colonial Secretary.
When I addressed you on the 11th instant, upon the subject of Inland Lot No. 671, I was unaware of the conditions upon which the resumption of the lot was proposed. These did not reach me until two days later.
I greatly regret that an application, seemingly on my behalf and unsupported by any evidence, should have been made to His Excelleney the Administrator "to increase the rate of indemnity" before even the fact of the resumption of the ground had been communicated
to me.
My letter had reference to a grievance of twenty-three years standing, and a serious difficulty in which I am placed at the present time by the opposition of the Military and Colonial Authorities for a long time past, and of late months more especially, in preventing my entrance upon and use of my property.
I requested that, if possible, some arrangement might be come to between the several departments by which an undoubted complication might be appropriatly met. I do not think the summary method of which I have subsequently received notice, is altogether the most suitable, under the circumstances which I have pointed out.
In paragraph 2 of your letter you quote the Surveyor General's Report "that Inland Lot No. 671 is of the same character and value as the adjoining Lots Nos. 670 and 672, portions of which have "been also recently re-entered by the Crown.” To this I beg most emphatically to take exception, and in so doing to decline to accept the valuation into which the Surveyor General has been led by this erroneous calculation.
When called upon, I shall be happy to state
my reasons.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Sd) GRANVILLE SHARP.
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