Safe Lord Standing The Land and
4th May, 1844. Sir Henry Pottinger
Victoria, Hongkong,
No.37.
2 Inclosures.
Forwarding
Received
Correspondence
with certain Landholders in
perpetuity, asking them their Buildings
in this Colony, for securing
to
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Victoria, 9th April, 1844
Richard Woosnam, Esqre.,
Secretary to Government, H[ong] Kong.
Victoria.
Sir,
As Circumstances may lead Her Majesty's Government to suppose that the original land holders in this Colony are urging unreasonable claims;
We deem it advisable to state as briefly as possible to you that the present form of Lease would be considered by us satisfactory, provided a clause was introduced securing buildings in perpetuity - but stipulating that at the expiration of every successive period of seventy-five years, the Ground Rents should be altered in accordance with