CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913 — Page 207

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Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong,

23rd June, 1913.

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Gentlemen,

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter

of the 29th ultimo in which you return the draft Conditions,

proposed by the Government for the lease of the area which

it is proposed to convert into a Portuguese Reservation, in

which various amendments are suggested; together with

certain observations on the conditions in question.

In reply I am to inform you that the conditions drawn

up by the Goverment represent the terms which it was

understood Mr. Ede had accepted. The modifications now

suggested are of such a far reaching nature that the Govern-

ment cannot accept them without alterations in the rates of

premium and Crown rent which will leave unaltered the

premium and Crown rent to be derived by the Goverment from

the leasing of the land. These terms are extremely liberal,

They were submitted with the scheme to the Secretary of

State and have with it received his sanction and the Govern-

ment is not prepared to re-consider then except for the

purpose of a re-adjustment which will leave the financial

aapect of the scheme, as far as the Government is concerned,

unaltered.

It follows that the amendments in (B), (C) and (F)

cannot be accepted, without the re-adjustment referred to

above,

(G) I am to point out to you, that in Kr.Ede's reply

dated 15th March, 1912, to certain pointe raised by the

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