Enclosure No: 4.
575
Head Quarters,
Hong Kong.
13th Sept: 1900.
Your Excellency,
With reference to your letter of 31st July 1900, No: 640; I have the honour to report that as the War Office orders were imperative concerning the early commencement of the defences at the Devil's Peak, I have entered into a contract for the works, and they are being pushed forward with all expedition.
2. As it would be beyond my province to ascertain who are the rightful owners of the land and piers to whom compensation would be due, I propose to refer all such matters to the Land Court otherwise I should probably make payments to men who were not the rightful owners, and only stimulate the rapacity of the Chinese in that quarter of the New Territory.
3. I would presume from paragraph 11 of the Circular of the Secretary of State for the Colonies of 30th December, 1894, and the reply of H.B. the Governor of Hong Kong dated 19th April 1895, that the Colony will make all necessary payments for the rights of use of the land by the War Department.
His Excellency
The Governor
of Hong Kong.
CORY.
Enclosure No: 4.
575
Head Quarters,
Hong Kong.
13th Sept: 1900.
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Your Excellency,
With reference to your letter of 31st July 1900,
No: 64 0; I have the honour to report that as the War
Office orders were imperative concerning the early
commencement of the defences at the Devil's Peak, I have
entered into a contract for the works, and they are being
pushed forward with all expedition.
2.
As it would be beyond my province to ascertain
who are the rightful owners of the land and piers to whom
compensation would be due, I propose to refer all such
matters to the Land Court otherwise I should probably make
payments to men who were not the rightful owners, and only
stimulate the rapacity of the Chinese in that quarter of
the New Territory.
3. I would presume from paragraph 11 of the
Circular of the Secretary of State for the Colonies of
30th December, 1894, and the reply of H.B. the Governor of
Hong Kong dated 19th April 1895, that the Colony will make
all necessary payments for the rights of use of the land
by the War Department.
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His Excellency
The Governor
of Hong Kong.
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