CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 110

In the reply to this Letter the following

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Sir,

TREASURY CHAMBERS,

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6th November 1894.

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Treas

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The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before Them your letter of the 31st ultimo, in which the Marquess of Ripon invites them to waive one of the conditions recommended by the Colonial Military Contributions Committee in 1888, and never here- -tofore objected to by the Colonial Office, regarding the proportion of the cost of new Barracks to be borne by the Colony of Hong Kong.

The condition in question is contained in the last words of paragraph 34 of the Report of the Committee dated 27th July 1888, which are underlined in red ink in the following copy of that paragraph.

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34. "After devoting the realized, or estimated value of the surrendered sites to the provision of the required accommodation for the garrison, the Committee consider that the balance required to complete that accommodation

One third against should be divided as follows :- Colonial and two thirds against Imperial revenues, being about the proportions in which the capital expenditure on defences has been shared; the Colony in addition providing the necessary sites for the Barracks"

The Committee go on to explain in the next paragraph that in their opinion, when land is required for

The Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

Colonial