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to the extent that its means permitted, be

called upon to make

up

the

deficiency;

Colony,

that it

but

the

the

whatever might be the means of a it would obviously be only just should contribute towards the cost of provision of new lands and buildings,

full value of those surrendered to it.

5. While this, to a certain extent, would guard the Imperial Exchequer against extra expenditure, it would entail no additional

expenditure on Colonial revenues.

6. Mo

object would apparently

be served

by endeavouring to ascertain the value of all lands provided by the Colony since its original acquisition by the Imperial Government, as suggested by the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong. It.

was the

duty of the Colony to provide all such lands, and in future it will be credited in the records of the station, with the value of all those it may provide, which

value