No 8 in Gespatch
D'N
No 3, of 1844.
Supliante
Letter
Suplisate
18th Jany, 1844
letter forming enclosure 4. Committee, in reply to their Council to the Land by His Excellency the Governor directed to be written.
N:21.
Sir,
Colonial Department
69
Government House, Victoria, (Hongkong) 18th January.
I am directed to acknowledge
No
1841
the 19th
the receipt of your letter, N. 497 Ultimo, accompanied by a plan of a part of the City of Victoria, and am to acquaint you, that His Excellency the Governor approves of
that plan, and
authorizes you to take immediate steps
for carrying
it into effect.
You are requested to report specially on the circumstances under which Mr. Burd gained possession of, and built a Godown on the site where his House, and ... stand,
Government has reason to believe, that that location was ...
for
etc.
Alexander I Gordon, Esq. Land Officer.