Council Room, Shanghai, 10th July, 1908, rrectod to acknowledge the of your letter of the 4th instant on the subject of the widening of the Ward Road ex B, C. 6t 3961, and, in reply thereto, to say that the Council accots the proposal therein contained.
Tt is sug-ested thal the mode of procedure he xs follows 1) that the resistered owner of the lot give " formal surrender of the strip of land concerned, to be registered at the Consulate forthwith.
(2) that the Council then lease the pertion so surrendered to the present pro. priest st a vomival ren* f say SI per 3) that the base he termi able wher the -teips of th: -djaining pr perty ar nequi-ed by the Mu (4) t at the rensatement ch Tle. 500 be pryable by the Coun termination of the l~ase.
(6) that the transaction be recorded by the inclusion of thia correspondence in the published records of the Council. ment is acceptable to yourself.
Lam, Sir, Your obedient servant, R. B. Moonean, Esq.
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