CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3] — Page 118

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being presented for compensation account of property resumed under the Taipingshan Re- sumption Ordinance of 1894. With Your Lordship's sanction, I propose, in the~ first instance to utilize, for that purpose, the available balances arising

out of reve

nue,

leaving the question of final discharge to be decided at a later date, when I shall be in a better position to judge both of the probable total cost

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may future:

and of the set off which be expected in the near in the form of receipts from sales of the property which has

been resumed.

Should the cost of re-

sumption

on as reduced by sales of the land in the resumed area exceed the available

balances by a comparatively

small amount a result which I do not anticipate, it will probably be found possible to meet such excess

by

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