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In 1888 Hongkong
RECEIVED DEC. 5 1843
To His Excellency,
Sir Henry
Pottinger 18th August 1843.
Sir,
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By letters dated 31st Decr
1842 the Directors of the London Missionary
Society requested their Agents in China, Batavia, and the Straits of Malacca, to assemble at
an early opportunity in Hongkong for the purpose of
conferring
together on the measures
deemed necessary
to be adopted for removing the Anglo Chinese College from Malacca; to that end; and after conferring together," to apply to the British Government for the grant of a site of land suitable for the erection of a Building for the Anglo Chinese College, with residences for two or more Missionaries
and