with what might then be the current value of land in the Colony - the
Same
to be ascertained in such manner
as Her Majesty's
determine.
Government
may
We have to.
(Signed) Jardine Matheson. If
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Jamieson How He
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of e
Robert Strachan..
Turner He Framjee Jamsetjee ffre Macvicar. Yo
The. D. Neave.
Fletcher Larkins Vf
(True Copy).
Mieland Worman
No:187
Gentlemen
Colonial Department.
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Government House, Hetoria
Hongkong. May the 1844.
Your letter dated the 9th of last three days ago
mouth only reached me
and was duly laid before. His Excellency
the Governor in Council.
In answer to it, I am directed to
inform you,
- you, that His Excellency cannot take on himself to give you any assurance beyond that which is stated in the concluding passage of my letter to your address of the 6th of March, last (10.92), but adverting to the peculiar circumstances under which some of you commenced building in this Colony, I am to add- Meft = Jardine Matherm He
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