CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904 — Page 37

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Extract from Messrs Dennys & Bowley's (Crown Solicitors) opinion dated Hong Kong 8th March 1904 (W.L.1641/04).

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These transactions, in relation to the

commutation of the Crown Rent, did not pass through our

hands and we were not consulted in reference to them.

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We wish however to point out that the property

is still leasehold and at the expiration of the terms of

the respective leases will revert to the Colonial

Government as Crown land.

If it was the desire of the Admiralty to acquire

the freehold reversion of the property that desire does

not appear to have been effected by the commutation of the

Crown Rent.

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