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preant 999 Years Leases. It might, therefore, be well to insert come maximund ordinary terus and add the words. or for such

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longer term as a Secretary of State may

authorize in any particular.

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13. I am also inclined to think that a two months notice might fairly be substituted in Hongkong for the

three months required by section 3.

( 14 ) In conclusion I may point

out that the

veres

extensive Reclamation

undertaken by the Admiralty

nord fu

progress in front of the Naval Yard

has, so far as I know, no

Statutory

authority. That Reclamation of

large

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of the foreshore and bed

the harbour at its narrowest part, is

to extend verwards from the present foreshore for some hundreds of feet

further than even the Praya,

conatrachd.

under Ordinance to of 1889. To the Admiralty

broveri

land is not held under a

any

Lease that difficulty would not be