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due to the War Department for certain transfers of Land to

the Colonial Government was set to the credit of the War

Department.

4.

This Special Reprovision Account, however, is now useless owing to the abandonment of the Murray Barracks Scheme, and I concur with the Military Authorities of the

South China Command in recommending that it should be closed

in the following manner: namely that the War Office should be asked to pay to the Crown Agents on behalf of the Hong Kong Government the sum of £114,317. 18. 9d. referred to

above while the sum of $235,217.00 should be transferred to

the credit of the War Department in the ordinary "Colonial Military Lands Account". This latter sum represents the

total value, under the Oakley Award, of the Pinewood and High West sites ($188,775.00) already transferred to this Government on 28th March, 1924, and of a small portion of

the Murray Barracks Site ($46,442.00) transferred on 29th

June, 1926, for the purpose of road widening.

5.

This despatch has been submitted to the local Military Authorities and they concur in its terms. I would therefore request, should you see fit to approve its proposals, that steps may be taken to obtain the concurrence of the War Office thereto, and the payment to this Government of the sum of £114,317. 18. 9d.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant

Governor, &c.