CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891 — Page 246

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od by the Officer Administering the

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Cavemment of Honkong. It was the

tha

auty of the Colony to provide all dal

ony to

lands, and in future it willbe credite

willbe

in the records of the station with the

value of all those it may provide,

which value will as a matter of account

be a set off against the dehit value of

all those surrendered. The balance,

if any, against the Colony being dealt

with under paragraph 7 of the Circular

of Oth June 1890.

this system does not recommend

itself to the Colony, the Secretary of

State for War is quite willing that the

alternative system referred to in para-

Graph 7 of e Circular of June 1890

should be adopted in Hong Kong as it

has been in Singapore. Under that al-

ternative there will arise no question

as to the value of lands, acquired or

surrendered by the War Department for

the defence of the Colony, which would

provide all lands and buildings re- quired for its garrison, and receive them back again when no longer suitable

to their purpose.