CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7] — Page 7

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CONFIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

My Lord,

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Me 2 JUL 06

Government House,

Hongkong, 2nd. May, 1906.

I have the honour to inform Your

Lordship that on November 16th., 1900, the Basel Mission

at Hongkong offered this Government the copyright of the

Reverend J. G. Lorcher's "Map of the Province of Canton",

which, with the assistance of a grant-in-aid from the Hong-

-kong Government, had been published in Switzerland in

1879. The conditions proposed were that 50 copies of a new

and of any further edition of the map should be given free

of cost to the Mission in Hongkong, and that Mr. Lörcher's

services for the preparation of a new edition should be

remunerated according to the time he might spend on it.

The plates of the original map had been destroyed.

2.

The question of the revision of

the map was referred to the Military Authorities and

Colonel L. F. Brown, Commanding Royal Engineer, reported

that

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

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