it may be found necessary to maintain on the Island for repairing and refitting It's Ships. You will also bear in mind in apportioning lots to private individuals that it will be expedient to leave ample space for streets, so as to ensure good ventilation, and thereby guard as much as possible against the evil consequences which might ensue from too crowded an occupation :
The terms on which land should be granted to individuals for the erection of houses and other buildings are necessarily in some degree dependent on the views entertained by H : M's Govt with regard to the policy to be observed in the administration of Hongkong. The intention of H : M's Govt being then that Hongkong should be a Free Port, and that the Harbour dues should therefore be as light as possible, to give every encouragement to the commerce of all nations, it is clear that no