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HongKong,

18th

September, 1900.

19251

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Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge

the receipt of your despatch No.239 of the 16th.July, and to inform you with reference to paragraph 3 thereof that a clause will be inserted in each lease therein referred

to, whereby the Government will be enabled to resume ci- ther or both sites if at any time they cease to br used

for the purposes for which they were granted. Such a

clause is usually inserted in such leases.

2. Hitherto each application for 8

grant of land to a religious or philanthropic institution

in this Colony has been considered on its merits, grants

being made only in cases when the institutions were thor-

oughly deserving of encouragement and in need of support:

the instruction regarding grants of land to public insti-

tutions contained in Lord Stenley's despatch No.35 of the

3rd January, 1844, to the erfect that the land allotted

should be only sufficient for the buildings and occupa-

tion grounds and not for purposes of endorment, being du-

ly observed.

5. Each grant has to reveive the

previous sanction of the Secretary of State for the Co- lonies, and I am of opinion that the principle above in- dicated upon which the grants have been made in the pas has worked satisfactorily and need not be disturbed.

4.

Right honourable,

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.

&C.,

&C.,

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