Staff.—Upon the}recommendation of the Acting Commandant the renewal of 2 adjutant iv authorises.
tum Oollyer's ageeement ax Corps tween the Commandant and the Oidaarce Oficor, Hongkong, is submitted on the subject of defective ammunition recently received, and it in decided to address official letter to the G.O. 0. in the matter, desiring thet if possible amall arma ammunition of " more recent date than 1900 may be supplied for t'e use of the Corps, both in respect to the free grant and to ammunition received on Payment, Road Extensions & Widenings, Peking and Szrchwen Roads—Tho following correspondence is ordered for publ Council Room, 27th May, 1907.
'Smm,—With reference to the correspondence' now in progress between your Company and the Council, on the subject of the widening of the Peking and Sz0- chuen Roads, and in the anticipation that further similar divergence of may rine as to the compensation payable la rom pect to other scheduled strips of the Gompany'a properties throughout the Settlement which are required for roxd Purp: ses, I am directed to request that you maybe good enough to lay before Your directors the Council's proposal that all such Iand shall be surrendered at the values placed theron by Missre, W. Scott and A. E. Alyar, who, as you are are at present making a valu of the Settle: nont for purposes of taxa these values to receive the othe tte per cent, paid in recognition of compulsory surrender, snd the amount to be reduced i third to represent the ty wrought by Extensions The acceptance by your Company of thin proposi have a two fold and mont desirable rom ult. In it will afford the Gouneil an opportunity for ite citation in negotiations with other landowners throughout the Settlement jand possibly re acceptance of these terms; second place, it the discussion would naturally have effect only so far as the present official plans are con-
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