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the Governor to have been very advisable
for the
interests of the Community,
as
from
Ber
aud
the arrange:
well as
to have been
under Instructions received
from Her Majesty's Government,
ments for effecting it
to a
rendered imperative
were entrusted
to a Committee appointed by
Henry Pottinger.
This Committee recom-
mended in their Report that a
location at
where a considerable Chinese population
had already settled, should be levelled
marked
out and prepared for
the
people
to which they should be permitted to
Remove
the materials of their dwellings
at Choong Hong. They also suggested that
all arrears of rent should be remitted,
and that such person,
in addition
to being allowed to occupy his
new location for five years rent free,
should receive
a small gratuity to cover
the expense of removal. Mr Davis
has reported that he has departed
from the recommendation of the
Committee in
one respect only by disallowing the pecuniary compensation for removal, thinking it inexpedient
to grant this further indulgence as
they have already occupied their
present habitations rent free, a privilege which is to be extended to them for the next five years.
We have
the honor to report that the
the Governor has assigned.
...
for refusing to sanction the
payment
Vice Comm...