CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 510

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Hong Kong 24/22111/97

Sir,

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6602

9 X 98

5th February, 1898.

With reference to the letter addressed to you

from this Office on the 20th December 1894, No: Hong

Kong 2/4690 and to the reply from the Treasury of the

28th December 1894, No: 18883/94; I am directed by the

Secretary of State for War to transmit herewith the copy

of a letter received from the General Officer Commanding

at Hong Kong on the subject of the expenditure on

barracks at that Station, and particularly such portion

Secretary,

of the expenditure as is to fall on Colonial Funds.

2.

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Broadly, under the conditions defined in the

correspondence above referred to, the Colony were to

provide, in the course of 10 years, for an expenditure

on barracks estimated to amount to $446,512

being 1/3rd of a total contemplated expenditure of $1,359,536

Of the sum of $446,512 the Colony have provided about

$79,450 and the arrangement has hitherto been that with

the money so provided the Colony should undertake cer-

tain definite services which thus remained outside

the sphere of War Office finance.

3.

easury.

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