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In the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
293
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984
TREASURY CHAMBERS,
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Sir,
RECE
Red' 18 AN OL
17
January 1895.
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury have had before Them Mr Fairfield's letter of
the 4th instant in which the Marquis of Ripon again
presses Them to consent to waive the enforcement, on the
Where Colony of Hong Kong of the obligation properly resting on
to provide, free of charge, any new sites required for New Barracks or other Military Buildings in that Colony. The scheme of new Works is no doubt, very
extensive, and the payment of One third of their cost will
impose a considerable charge on Colonial funds. In order to lighten the total charge to the Colony in connection with the scheme, My Lords are content, whilst reserving
the right of Her Majesty's Government to such free sites,
to waive insistence on that right, in the present, instance
on the understanding that this course meets with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for War. The ground
of the concession will be that the case is one of
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exceptional circumstances such as the Colonial Military Contribution Committee contemplated the occurrence of in
paragraph 36 of their Report of the 27th July 1888.
Subject to that concurrence, the arrangement,
will be that the full market value of the Colonial Military Lands and Buildings surrendered by the War Department in Hong Kong will be applied in reduction of the gross cost of
the
The Under Secretary of State
COLONIAL OFFICE.
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