Hongkong
is liable in common with
other British Colonies.
Certified a true Copy
(Signed) Edward M'drick, Major Coms Rt. Engineers. 16th February 1844
(True Copy)
Richard Worman
Duplicate
No 72.
No 5 of the 30th January
No 9 of the 10th February.
Sir
Colonial Department. 162
Government House, Victoria. (Hongkong) February 19th, 1844
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to acknowledge the receipt
of Your Letter
of the 16th Instant with its enclosed copy of a Treasury Minute of the 2nd of June on the subject of a House being built for
the residence of
the Honorable Major General D'Aquilar,
and
am desired to assure
the Governor entirely concurs in the views and intentions
of the Major General as
You, that therein detailed.
His Excellency has already explained in two different Despatches lately addressed to Lord Stanley the
Captain D'Aguilar,
Assistant Military Secretary.
peculiar
40.
fe.