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considered adissable that

a

produce rent payable in ferfetuity should in all cases be commuted

for a capital sum

and Section 19 should

be amended

accordingly by alluring as an

Alternative

awan

annual

money rent, the fixid

Mrovided

as

18, amended

in section

as dricted

in the forming hagraph of

this despatch.

5.

I would suggest

that, in order to meet

technical grands

cedure

Intra forward

protest the objections and fround wall. Whitting

anal grands of

Assad the

bassing of this

Ordinance, enclosed in you despatch,

plan Ordinance should

RAFT.

and he should be is informed

to introduced miffo

the Legislative Council refealing Ordinans

No. 8 $ 1900,

r

and

i with

marting it

dure the amendments

directed in this

despatch.

6. I have

further

considend

the other

objections to the Ordinance put front in th. Whitehead's

protest, wis that it is a violation of

the Convention for the Extension of the Colay of Hong Kong,

of the 9th

June, 1885, but I su

for

no reason

adopting This

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