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TREASURY CHAMBERS,

17

August 1892.

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The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

· have had before Them your letter of the 25th ultimo, and the

preceding correspondence sent to them by the War Office,

respecting the valuation to be set upon Military land in

Hong Kong when surrendered by the War Department to the

Colonial Government-, a point on which a difference of

opinion has arisen between Lord Knutsford and the Secretary

of State for War, and which Mr Stanhope wishes to submit for

the decision of the Treasury, whilst Lord Knutsford would

prefer either the arbitration of the Lord Chancellor, or a

reference to the Law Officers of the Grown, because the

question is one between the Imperial and Colonial Exchequam

on which My Lords are interested parties.

Under the agreement arrived at by Her Majesty's

Government on the recommendation of the Colonial Military

Contributions Committee, and communicated by the Colonial

office to the Colonies in a Circular Despatch of the 9th

June 1890, when Colonial Military land, occupied by the

Military Authorities without any title deed, or conveyed to

the Board of Ordnance or Secretary of Stats for War by

grant from the Crown signed by the Governor, for purposes

of Defence, is no longer required for those purposes, it is

to be surrendered to the Colonial Government, on payment

of its estimated value in kind or money, if that value be

immediately required for the Military Defence of the Colony,

or, if not, on sondition that the Government agrees to hold

its recorded value at the time of transfer, or its actual

proceeds if subsequently sold, at the disposal of the War

Department

he Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.