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cided to accept by way of private contract under section 14 sub-section (2) of Ordinance 1:21 of 1891 the~ offer of Lam diu Sang and Holai dang, trading together under the name of the ~ Man Fook Company, for the grant of the Opium Farm for a period of three years from the 1st March 1895 at n annical rental of $286,000 and subject to the usual terms and conditions so

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for as applicable to the case. Tenders for the Farm originally called for

were

in the usual course, but

the highest annual rentai! offered being only $240,000,

it was not considered ad-

visable to accept it. Subse-

quently the Acting Colonial Secretary

was able to arrange

considerably better termo for the Government, and

these were

as

duly azcepted

reported above, and em_

bodied