CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902 — Page 645

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as to a suitable surveyor, there will be no necessity

to delay matters by referring the question to this country), and the respective values of the land

Burrendered by the Colonial Government and the War

Department set off one against the other, it being

understood

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(a) that, should the land required by the War

Department exceed in value that surrendered to

the Colonial Government, the Department must pay

the excess value in cash or only receive

Colonial land up to the value of that surrendered.

If the value of the land surrendered is in

excess, then that exceas is to be devoted to

paying for any other land that may be required

by the War Department.

(b)

that the value of the land required by the

Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., is to be the

price paid by that Company to the Colonial

Government, less a deduction (hereafter defined)

on account of the small area of military

reserve land included therein.

(c) that the Colonial Office admits that the

War Department has rights of Militery Reserve

over all the land at Kowloon involved in these

exchanges (except that at the Water Police

Station