relation to the affairs in connection with the Opium trade not being your attention

"I am told that there is a proposition

that has been brought out to me by

Sir Henry Pottinger.

13th November 1843,

"Victoria, Hongkong,

5 o'clock.

No 23.

Received

present date-

Reporting Proceedings

I forward you with reference

to the dispatch marked

in the draft to Sir Henry Pottinger of 30

October 1847.

I forward a copy of the correspondence

relative to the contemplated enlargement of

the Works. Mr. Mundy has suggested to me,

and I think very justly, that

Captain Harland should have the opportunity

of acquiring a good

knowledge of the details. I have become quite convinced of this view the Office staff of Building

one toriel

to det

Feb. 10. Consult with Cl. W.

for a competent person with the requisite qualifications instead

of the person referred to here

PROCLAMATION.

By virtue of the Authority vested in me by the Queen's Letters Patent, dated at Westminster, on the 5th day of April, 1843, and also by Instructions issued to me under Her Majesty's Royal Signet and Sign Manual, of date the 6th day of April 1843, I do hereby nominate and appoint the undermentioned Gentlemen to be Members of the Legislative and Executive Councils of the Colony of Hongkong, pending Her Majesty's Pleasure:

ALEXANDER ROBERT JOHNSTON, Esq.,

Registrar & Assistant to Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c.

JOHN ROBERT MORRISON, Esq., Chinese Secretary to Her Majesty's Chief Superintendent and the Government of Hongkong.

WILLIAM CAINE, Esq., Major in Her Majesty's 26th Regiment of Foot, and Chief Magistrate of the Colony of Hongkong.

The above Gentlemen are to be styled, in addition to their usual addresses, The Honorable, in all Official and other documents,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Dated at the Government House, at Victoria Hongkong, this 21st day of August 1843, in the seventh year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen

HENRY POTTINGER.

Victoria, &c.

see Anything in

letters

anything to be done by you- question ought to be the confirmation of the newly appointed officer however but as regards machinery

in order to consider whether the

Office might not be altogether

Bethel witte of cussi

nothing need be done –

Mech:

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RECEIVED

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