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to $28,598. This valuation is based on the price given in paragraph 2(8) on page

of Colonel Lewis's Memorandum as to be paid for the remainder of the War Department Reserve near Kowloon Dock,

(b). The provision of a Military landing place in this neighbourhood, accessible at all states of the tide is in my opinion a Military necessity. It would moreover enable guns and other heavy stores to be landed and transported with less risk

of injury than at present to the roads of the Colony. I should

be obliged therefore if Your Excellency would be good enough to

inform me at what price the Colony would be prepared to reclaim

with the earth excavated from the proposed road, and to transfer

to the War Department, the area coloured green on the map which

was forwarded with Colonel Brown's proposals of the B1st. Uctober,

1904.

5.

I should then be prepared to recommend for

the acceptance of the War Office Your Excellency's proposal sub-

-ject to the following conditions, in addition to the two already

accepted in Your Excellency's letter No. 8830/1805/-0.8.0./0,

dated 19th. December, 1905.

(1). The land required for the construction of the

road to be transferred to the Colony at the rate of 85 cents per

square foot, and the sum of $28,598, thus obtained to be placed

to the credit of the War Department in the Military Lands Account.

(ii). The area coloured green in the plan referred to

to be reclaimed and transferred to the War Department at a price

still to be agreed upon, and the value to be debited to the War

Department in the Military Lands Account.

the Governor of Hongkong.

I have etc..

(Sd.) V. Batton,

Major-General,

Commanding the Troops in South

Chioa.