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They have subscribed funds and have appointed T'ONG CHIU and TAM A-TIM to the direction of what may be requisite.
10th January, 1851.
T. WADE,
Asst. Chinese Secretary,
No. 14,
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
SIR,
VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 17th January, 1851.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 2 of 11th instant, submitting a petition from several householders and other Chinese residents in the City of Victoria praying that a grant of land be made to them for the purpose of erecting thereon a temple for the reception of tablets to the memory of their deceased countrymen.
In reply I am directed by His Excellency the Governor in Council to instruct you to allot to the applicants the piece of ground in Taipingshan recommended by you for the required temple. The lot should not exceed 100 feet square, and is to be rent free as long as it is used solely as a temple.
CHARLES ST. GEO. CLEVERLY, Esquire,
Surveyor General,
(Enclosure 6.)
I have, &c.,
W. CAINE.
No. 95.
SIR,
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, 8th June, 1866.
The Inspector of Nuisances attached to my Department while inspecting houses in Taipingshan Street illegally constructed has discovered one house No. 3611 in which are 21 coffins containing bodies. The bodies are supposed to be stored here with the intention of forwarding them to their native places at some future time.
I should conceive that if this is allowed to continue it is more likely to cause some epidemic or contagious disease than the defective drainage, and I beg that the matter may be laid before His Excellency the Governor.
I presume the owner of house No. 3611 is liable to a penalty of $100 under sectiou 4, Ordinance 12 of 1856.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
The Honourable
ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Your most obedient Servant,
W. WILSON,
Surveyor General,