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REG 11 SEP 31

3 St. James' Square.

10th September, 1891.

of 570/40.

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Sir,

am directed by the President of the Board of Agriculture to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th. instant in which you state that Lord Knutsford has abandoned the idea of commencing the Grigonometrical Survey of Hong Kong this

year.

With reference to your enquiry as to the probable duration of the Survey

and the details of the

estimate of the cost, I am to

enclose a memorandum prepared.

The Under Secretary of State,

for the Colonies.