CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906 — Page 724

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To The Right Honourable

The Colonial Secretary for State,

Downing street,

London

718

33391

RECH IRE 10 SEP 06.

The Humble Petition of the

Leaseholders of New Territory,

Kowloon in the Colony of Hongkong

Respectfully Sheweth,

1. That Your Petitioners on the 17th. day of October One

thousand nine hundred and five made Petition to His Excellen-

cy Sir Matthew Nathan K.C.M.G. Governor of Hongkong in the terms set out in the exhibit hereto annexed and marked "A".

2. That the said Petition was refused as is shewn by the

Colonial Secretary's letter here to annexed and marked "R".

3. Your Petitioners respectfully beg to point out that by a Notification issued by the Hongkong Government dated the 12th day of July 1899 a Schedule of Crown rents on land situated in New Kowloon in the Colony of Hongkong was laid down as

follows:-

-

$3:20

$2:64.

$1:52

(a) 1st. class agricultural land per Acre

2nd. class agricultural land per Acre

3rd. class agricultural land per Acre

And by a Government Notification dated the 27th. day of June

1905 these Crown Rents were raised according to the Schedule

therein contained as follows:-

(b) ist. class agricultural land per Acre

2nd. class agricultural land per Acre

3rd. class agricultural land per Acre (c) 1st. class Building site per Acre

2nd. class Building site per Acre

3rd. class Building site per Acre -

-

-

$5:00

$3:00

$1:50

$250:00.

$150:00

$100:00

4. Your Petitioners respectfully submit that the Crown rent

in respect of the said agricultural land is excessive in as

much as the said land in this lacality is very poor and its