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more land without special reference to, and sanction from England, and it will be seen by an Extract from Instructions which it is intended shall be published in the next Hong Kong Gazette (on the 24th of this month) that it is even matter of considerable doubt whether those Grants that have been already provisionally made will be confirmed,
Copies of your letter and of this reply will be transmitted by the first opportunity to Her Majesty's Government, but Sir Henry Pottinger thinks it right to add, that in taking on himself to grant, subject to confirmation, the extensive and valuable land which he did last year to Morrison Education Society he was impressed with an idea that it was to supersede the Anglo Chinese College, and that under that impression he has since recommended that the annual Allowance granted to the latter should be transferred to the former, a recommendation in which His Excellency felt himself fully justified from the fact, that although the Governor of the Straits Settlements offered every inducement in the shape of pay, not one person of any class or kind could be found either at Malacca or elsewhere in the Straits who would come on to Assist in the important department of Interpreters during the late War with China
I have the honor &c.,
Signed. Richard #065nam
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