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proper course will be under par. 3 of referring t the new Circular to appropriate the Trea Catte

of the surrendered lands & (15/17/96)

far as it will extend the new sites required

value

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the cost.

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proposed between the two forts.

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TREASURY CHAMBERS,

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19 October 1894

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Sir,

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Red 2000 34,

The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's

Treasury have carefully considered your letter of the 5th

instant, respecting the proportion of the cost of new

Barracks at Hong Kong to be charged to the Colony,

As the Marquess of Ripon is aware, the Committee

on Colonial Military Contributions, in their Report of

27th July 1888 paragraph 34 recommended

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(a) That the value of Colonial Military Lands surrendered

by the War Department to the Colonial Government of Hong Kong should be appropriated towards the cost of new Barracks,

(b) That any new sites required for the new Barracks

should be provided by the Colonial Government, free of

charge.

(c) That the remainder of the cost of the new Barracks

should be divided between the United Kingdom and the Colony in the proportions of 2/3rds to the former and 1/3rd

to the latter.

This recommandation was concurred in by the Secretary

of State for the Colonies and the Secretary of State for War, and has been implicitly renewed by the Committee on

Colonial Military Contributions in their further Report of

24th May last..

But, as yet, the Treasury has contended for a Contribution by the Colony of not less than half the net cost of the new Barracks, in addition to the requisite new

sites.

The Under Secretary of State

Colonial Office

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