The Prefect Apostolic of the Roman Catholics to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.
(Copy)
SIR,
CATHOLIC MISSION HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 7th January, 1848.
In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of this date conveying to me (on the part of the Catholic Mission) His Excellency the Governor's pleasure granting a piece of ground in the Valley of Wong-nei-chong as a place of Burial for Roman Catholics, and requiring me to conform with certain regulations, I do myself the honour to acquaint you, that so soon as the regulations required by the Surveyor General are pointed out, and the boundary lines marked, all Burials at the present Cemetery shall be discontinued, and I shall conform to any regulations which the Surveyor General may deem requisite.
I have, &c.,
The Honourable,
(Signed)
FR. ANTONIO FELICIANI, Prefect Apostolic.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
True Copy,
(Signed) J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART.
10th March, 1884.
The Colonial Secretary to the Surveyor General.
COLONIAL OFFICE, VICTORIA,
(Copy.)
No. 12.
SIR,
HONGKONG, 8th January, 1848.
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to send the enclosed letter from the Revd. Father FELICIANI of the Catholic Mission, and to request that you will place yourself in communication with him, and cause to be marked out for a Roman Catholic Burial Ground, the Valley North of, and adjoining to the English Burial Ground in the Wong-nei-chong.
You will please to draw up any Rules or Regulations that may to you seem necessary for the security and good appearance of this proposed new Burial Ground, submitting the same for the approval of His Excellency.
CHAS. ST. GEO. CLEVERLY, Esq.,
Surveyor General.
True Copy,
(Signed) J. H. STEWART-LOCKHART.
10th March, 1884.
I have, &c.,
(Signed)
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.