point out care
additional support. ... In doing what. I now should be taken. of course, to place or build the Walls and Pillars in perfect Contact: with the Beams, both above and below, and I do not see that the division of the ground Floor into Compartments could be attended with any degree of inconvenience... On the contrary, such an arrangement of the lower Godown strikes me to be very desirable, and if Lieutenants Ouchterlony concurs
concurs with me in the efficiency of the plan. I have here Stated, I beg that Major General Burrell will be so good as to give the necessary orders for its being forthwith carried into effect-
that
an
Estimate
may
be
furnished . . In the meantime,
however, with the great object of Saving time; progress
the Work should."
(Signed) Henry Pottinger
Government House, Hong Kong, March 12th, 1842.
(True Copy)
Michael Worsuam
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