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        "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904",
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        "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904",
        "content_text": "He chose to recommend it. Of course, he would never submit lists without most careful enquiry, and I cannot remember any case in which injustice was even alleged to have occurred. The lists were considered by the Government in Council, and banishment orders invariably followed. Even for some time after Sir Henry's arrival, he may have banished a good number of men. They were mostly absent Triad Society rascals who infested the New Territory when the system was in place.\n\nRequiring the support and concurrence of the Registrar General (the Protector of Chinese) did not complicate the procedure very much in Innes's time. It was his practice to make independent enquiry by means of the District Officers, and if their reports confirmed those of the police detectives, he invariably supported the recommendation for banishment without (I am nearly certain) requiring the examination of the persons reported on.\n\nBut with the appointment of Mr. Brewin as Protector of Chinese, a cause of deadlock arose. He would not concur in recommending banishment for anyone until he had seen and questioned the person personally. This, as may be imagined, has complicated matters frightfully. Such interviews, as may happen under the most favourable circumstances, are hardly possible and advance the case of the police can rarely be sure of furthering.\n\nWhen wanted by the detectives for any length of time, used to be illegal, but granted that an interview is arranged, that the Protector of Chinese agrees to banish, what happens? The needle has been returned to the haystack, while a considerable time has elapsed. Banishment is forwarded to Government. It involves a meeting of the Executive Council.\n\nPage 24",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]",
        "page_number": 263,
        "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "NOS \n\nyears-pointing to the fact that any technical breach of the conditions of lease has been waived by the Government, and advantage taken of it for purposes of revenue—as has been done in fact in the case of a very large number of the farm leases.* We request therefore that these buildings may be allowed to remain: except such as are on the area proposed to be resumed; for which compensation should be paid.\n\n5. Our clients will, when an agreement has been come to, execute such deeds as may be necessary to carry it into effect.\n\n6. Our clients do not claim any rights beyond those that are conceded to every resident in a British Colony; the right namely to be treated with equal justice—in this particular case the right to be treated no less fairly than other owners of Farm Lots.\n\n7. A large number of small structures—matsheds &c. used in great part by persons occupied in the industry of pig-rearing have been removed in accordance with your request, and we shall feel obliged if you will let us know if this has been done to your satisfaction.\n\nSome of these structures have been erected we believe in past times without permits being granted; but upon these buildings also—as we are informed—taxes have been paid to the Government: their illegality therefore cannot be very glaring. Our client however has hastened to carry out your wishes in this matter.\n\nNo. 894.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nWe are,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Sd.) DENISON RAM & GIBBS.\n\nPublic Works Department,\n\nHongkong, 20th June 1906.\n\nK. F. L. 3 R. P. & K. F. L. 4.\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 8th ultimo, I beg to inform you that the matter is under consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nK.F. L. 4 \n\nMr. Chatham litte\n\n258\n\n19. Sup: 1908\n\nHOMUN TH\n\nMessrs. DENISON RAM & GIBBS.\n\nW. CHATHAM,\n\nDirector of Public Works.\n\nA large number of the Farm Lots have been built on without any protest on the part of the Government. Nearly all the houses that were built on the island in the out-districts and on the higher levels: when the first experiments were made in the direction of country or suburban houses; were built on Farm Lots, as for instance:—\n\nHon. Mr. Bellos, The Eyre... F. L. No. 57.\n\nThe Haystack.... F. L. Nos. 60 & 61.\n\nThe Mount Austin Arms Hotel... F. L. No. 54.\n\nThe Teak Hotel........ Treverbyn .........F. L. No. 3,\n\n.................F. L. No. 62.\n\nThe Admiralty Bungalow.........F. L. No. 53.\n\nMr. Granville Sharp, Homestead......... F. L. No. 59. Myrth Bank.....F. L. No. 58.\n\nSir E. J. Ackroyd's Ellaudonau F. L. No. 64. Mr. A. F. McEwens Bungalow...F. L. No. 67,\n\nMost of these lots were subsequently converted into Building Lots.\n\n(Sd). W. Chatham\n\nAREA 2. 12 ACRES\n\nScale 32 inches = 1 mile.\n\nP.PW.\n\n19.9.75.\n\n6",
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        "document_key": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913",
        "page_number": 201,
        "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913",
        "content_text": "# CONDITIONS \n\nfor the grant of a piece of Crown Land by the Government of Hong Kong to be known as the \"PORTUGUESE RESERVATION AREA\"\n\nDEACON LOCKER DEACON & HARSTON, Solicitors, 26, fos. 1.I.F. HONGKONG.\n\n!\n\nR. J.\n\nAdditional observations on Conditions regarding the grant of Crown land to be known as the Portuguese Area, 190\n\nIt is essential that the Reserved Area should be rendered fever-proof, which it is considered possible by the proper construction of nullahs and channels. The amounts contemplated to be expended by the Government in this connection (Conditions J and K) seem to be somewhat large, and it is suggested by the lessees that in order to acquire the desired object, it would be sufficient to roughly train the nullahs and channels by filling in between the stones with lime concrete and rendering with cement in a similar manner to the nullah adjoining the P.O.W.'s house on the Barker Road, or they may be treated in the like manner to that recently constructed adjoining the \"Haystack\" at the Peak. If the work is carried out on these lines to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health, it is submitted that a large portion of the outlay contemplated by the Government would be saved, which could be appropriated towards the construction and maintenance of the roads, lanes, and sewers referred to in Conditions F, G, and H.\n\nNo person other than of Portuguese extraction or sub-lessees, except domestic servants employed by an authorised person in the Reserved Area; Priests and teachers attached to the Church and School respectively, Doctors, and bona fide lodgers with the approval in writing of the lessees, shall reside...",
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