Hangstong5
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It is requested that in any further com-
munication on this subject, the above Number
may be quoted; and the Letter addressed to---
The Under Secretary of State,
War Office,
19125
Pall Mall,
London, (S. W.)
Sir
Race
C.O.
214
(REG 4 JAN 32
F & T 1000 3-91
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, S.W.
318
4 January we.
1892
In reply to your letter 48th October 1891
8:
W positing out that certain deductions have to be
made from the belance of £ 2.928 due from the Colony on account of the defence Workset Hong Kong i Jove directed by the Secretary of state for Was to inform you
that there.
deductions de ut Seave to kine to be admissible,
2. It appears Перреть
that in
May 1885 the
Governor decided that indemnities, asteinated at $ 7,691, in respect of certain lands at Beloher's Point resumed from private owners for the purposes of the defence works, should be charged against the Defence Contribution of the Colony. But this decision does not
seen to have been communicated wither to the "beal Military authorities, or to the War office, The land asked for was, apparently, handed The Under Secretary of State.
Colonial office.
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