CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4] — Page 316

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College of Medicine for Chinese.

Hongkong, 13th. September,1

1900.

sir,

Referring to previous correspondence

on the subject of an endowment for the College of Medicine for Chinese, a correspondence extending at intervals over

a period of more than ten years, the Court of that

Institution request permission to again bring to the

notice of His Excellency the Governor the grounds on

which they believe they can reasonably ask assistance

from the public funds, and to request such assistance

in consideration of services they are directly and

indirectly rendering to the community.

now,

In previous correspondence their

application was for a grant of money to enable them to avail themselves of the munificent offer made to them

by the Honourable E. R. Belilios, C.M.G. to erect a College building at his own expense, and the condition

attached to that offer that the Government should be prepared to endow the College with the equivalent of his own actual outlay required the application to be for a

The Honourable F. H. May, C.M.G..

Acting Colonial Secretary, &c.,

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