Referring to the plan of Road Ex-the Hongkew Settlement deter-ined upon by the Council in 1894, I beg to you that a portion of Lot 2,4%9, adjoining Cadastral Lot 5,101, is required for a public road, 30 feet wide, in accordance with the provisions of Article VI of the Land Regulations.
Tshall be obliged by your informing me if you desire a formal deed of surrender prepared for your signature, otherwise the line of road might be defined by M.CR stones.
Tam, Sir, Your obedient servant, P. Bear, Secretary. kes, & Master, 4, Balfour Buildings, Shanghai, 18th March, 1898. Lot 2429—Cadas ral Lot 5101.
Sin,—With reference to your letter of the Ith inst. stating that the Council requi a portion of the above Lot to make up a 30 fect road through this Lot—we beg to inform you that the owner is prepared to surrender to the Council so much of the land free of cost as may be required to make up the 30 feet road, but he asks that the line of the proposed road be shifted a few feet to the west in the direction which has already been pointed out to Mr. Sampson (of the Municipal Surveyor's Office) and also that the Council will refund to him the sum of five hundred and eighty Taels (Tls. 580) which sum he calculates he has expended in raising the lev-1 of that portion of his Lot on which the proposed road is to be made. our faithfully, Jouxsos, Stoxes, & MasTER. J. 0. P. Buas, Esq.,
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