N.W.E.
Gentlemen,
Colonial Department.
Government House Victoria, (Hongkong) January 26th 1844
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor in Council to inform you that the Ground lying immediately to the Eastward of Government House Hill, having been allotted for Cantonments with a view to preventing misunderstandings and public, as well as private, inconvenience, it is necessary that the three Houses that have been built on that Ground, severally belonging to you, and at present occupied by Major General Lord Saltown, Major Grant, and Captain D'Aquilar, should be...
Mew!! Jardine Matheson, Esq.,
N. Duus, Esq.
and
Robert Edwards, Esq.