CO129-557-6 Tenure of lands held by War Department 16-1-1936 - 25-1-1937 — Page 62

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Sir,

Enclosure No. 6.

C.R.C.C. 2784(CE).

61

Headquarters,

China Command, Hong Kong,

8th September, 1933.

usi rece

See 84.

Victoria Cantonment, W. D. Lot No.6.

With reference to your letter L.0.No.93/1933 dated

4th February, 1933, and the draft Memorandum of Transfer

submitted under cover of your L. 0. No.1787/1929 dated 21st

November, 1929.

2.

I am instructed to inform you that the Army

Council agree to the proposed regularisation of the tenure

of Victoria Cantonment but point out that the draft Memorandum

referred to above is open to the objection that it would convert

into ordinary Colonial Military Land certain leasehold

properties for the leasehold interest in which the War Department

has paid cash. If such properties were treated as Colonial

Military Land the War Department would be entitled, in the

event of surrender, to no more than a credit in the Colonial

Military Lands Account. The War Department however must claim

in such an event, payment in cash for the value of the residue

of the leases.

It is therefore requested that the wording of

the draft memorandum be modified to ensure that cash will be

paid by the Colonial Government on surrender instead of a credit

and that the plan be amended to record these leaseholds.

3. As regards the Memorandum of Surrender I am

instructed to say that the rmy Council are not aware of any

need to vary or define further the Department's title to the

leasehold areas and consider that the draft should not be

completed.

The Land Officer,

Land Office, Courts of Justice,

Hong Kong.

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