what has been done, as well as what remains to be
that I need not here enter
love regarding
into a
to me to
reply;
but with regard to the steps
you have taken for disposing of further lots of ground
and
it
laying
becomes
down new
my
regulations on these points
duty to inform you
by the adoption of those measures
That
you have entirely and have
the authority vested in
you
likewise acted in direct opposition to the views and
sentiments recorded in
my Notification to Mr. Majesty's
on assuming charge
of my duties in August
5:41, in which I stated, and fully intended) that
everything connected with Hongkong should remain as I found it until the Gracious Pleasure
of the Queen should be made
known.
the opportunities I shall shortly have of verbal
Communication with
you preclude the necessity
I now
only
deem
it right
to record the preceding remarks to provide for the contingency of my having to annul
proceedings either by
orders from H. M's Govt
for whose information they must be submitted) or from my
them
not
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on my arrival at
Hong Kong I love to
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(Signed) Henry Pottinger
H. M's Plenipotentiary
Nicholas Woosnam