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A. R. Johnston Esquire
I request you
Mr Major Malcomson
Hongkong 5th February 1842.
will furnish to me at your
...
earliest convenience, for the information of H.M. Government and
the Right Honorable The Governor General of India, a detailed consecutive Return of the number and size of the lots of land of all descriptions sold, or appropriated up to this date in the Island of Hongkong distinguishing those that were disposed of during Captain Elliot's time from those that have lately been disposed of by you.
I have to request; that
you understand that no more
lots of land
will be granted on any
terms without my express
sanction and further, that you
will intimate to all applicants that it is
my intention, as formerly notified,
to await the Instructions I expect from H.M's. Government.
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