the
option. of resenting to places where
land.
can.
be
bought
or rented.
On
much more moderate conditions; and
we submit that it never can be the
wish or intention of Her Majesty's Government to place the early occupants of Land in the
in such a position
new
settlement
Should Your Excellency consider it
ever to accede to our
Your power
would at a future period, venture to
within
request
as to a revision
of the Leases
of the main
points which
have not deemed it
present
suggest alterations on some
we
expedient to notice in our
Communication
We have the fullest confidence
in
Your Excellency's
sense
of justice
and in the assurance that our
claims to a
more
equitable tenure
will
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will meet with due consideration.
We have to
(Signed) Jardine Matheson. &c.
Dent. &c.
Turner &c.
Gemmell &c.
Robert Strachan.
Rawson &c.
Fletcher Larkins &c.
Macvicar. &c.
Nave. &c.
C. Fearon
J. Larkins,
Lindsay &c.
D. & M. Rustomjee &c.
Byramjee... Gibb Livingston. &c.
Jamieson. How &c.
Rick? Oswald
Holliday Wile. &c.
M. Death.
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Michend Woornam