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remote from the usual Police Stations.
Captain Elliot's first step after taking possession of this Island in 1841, was to request Her Majesty's Senior Naval and Military Authorities to select such locations as they considered best suited for their respective Departments.
A Committee which assembled under the orders of Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer composed of three Post Captains of the Royal Navy fixed on the spot where the "Naval Stores" are now situated near West Point - which location has since borne the name of "Navy Bay" and further marked off, and specially reserved at the request of the Admiral Sir William Parker subsequent to his arrival in China.
Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Gough, himself selected the site of the Barracks at West Point at present abandoned, (as well as those of the other Barracks on the Island), so that you will perceive that Miss Jamieson How He (and other proprietors of premises in the western quarter of this Colony) had every hope and belief that they would be amply protected from their close vicinity to West Point Barracks and Navy Bay the one intended to be a Chief Military - the other the only Naval - Station in the Colony.
We have &c.
(Signed) Henry Pottinger
George D'Aquilar
A true Copy.
(Signed) W. Caine.
Richard Worrnam