Lieut. Colonel Barrow.
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April 145
Co.
31. March 1843.
Sanctioned by the Hon'ble
dered Stanley to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th inst., requesting
that Dr. Parker
may
be empowered to receive Land in the Harbour of Hong Kong
which will be required
for naval purposes.
In reply I am to inform
you
that it will not be
possible to confer on Dr. Parker a power of acquiring Land; but that it will be necessary that