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C.O.D. No. 9169 of 1903.

F. H. MAY.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Eighteen thousand two hundred and twenty-three Dollars and twenty-one Cents ($18,223.21) for additional compensation to Messrs. STEPHENS and HOWARD in respect of damage sustained owing to the Reclamation in front of Marine Lot No. 184.

This amount has been calculated as follows:--

Depreciation (as in Musso's case) 75 cents per square foot for Area (M. L. 184)

32,481 square feet.

Damage on 1st September, 1898,...........

Interest thereon from 1st September, 1898, to 28th February, 1904,

Total,..

Deduct amount paid on 29th August, 1903,................

and

Interest thereon up to 28th February, 1904,.

Total now payable,

Government House, Hongkong, 9th February, 1904.

.$24,367.50

9,381.46

$33,748.96

.$15,000.00

525.75

15,525.75

..$18,223.21

C.S.O. No. 8342 of 1903

F. H. MAY.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Nine thousand Dollars ($9,000) in aid of the vote Public Works, Annually Recurrent, to meet the balance of the cost of the work of constructing new roofs for the Government Civil Hospital.

Government House, Hongkong, 11th February, 1904.

The Committee unanimously agreed to recommend that the above votes be passed.

The Committee then adjourned.

Laid before the Legislative Council and adopted on the 14th March, 1904.

R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

A. M. THOMSON,

Chairman.