CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900 — Page 678

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Sir,

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22, Billiter Street,

London, R.C.

November 26th, 1900.

We have the honour to submit for your consider-

ation the following reasons in support of the application

we now make that the Authorities in HongKong should be

instructed to grant our firm of Butterfield & Swire the

same term viz: 999 years

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for the extension of Quarry

Bay Marine Lot No. 2 as is named in the Crown Lease

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commencing 26th May, 1898, (but granted in 1893), under

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which they hold the original ground.

By this Crown Lease the entire frontage rights

of Marina Lot No. 2 are reserved to the lessAAS for A

term of 999 years.

No one without the consent of the lessees could

reclaim in front of this Marine Lot.

The Colony obtains premium for ground which it

could not have sold except with our Firm's sanction.

When our firm applied, in March, 1900, to the

Government of HongKong for a site (marked A on attached

The Right Hon.

Joseph Chamberlain,

Secretary of State for the Colonies.