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permission to do so.
With respect to the mode of proceeding soon to on this occasion, I leave it to yourselves to fix the sum that you are to pay to the Proprietors with these Persons, and as soon as that is done, it will be necessary for you to have the sale and payment of the Price registered and witnessed in the office of the "Land and Road Inspector", which will be done on your applying to Mr Johnston - the Deputy Superintendent, who will remain in charge of the Government of Hong Kong, during my absence.
In thus acceding to your request, it is perhaps unnecessary for me to remark, that you state, that the Proprietors are willing to sell their land to you; and it is further expedient, that I should distinctly intimate to you, that the tenure on which you will hold your Purchase, you will solely depend on whatever Regulations Her Majesty's Government may be pleased to lay down hereafter, with respect to granting and appropriating land in the Island, as I do not possess Authority to define those points at this moment.
I have to
(Signed) Henry Pottinger, Chief Superintendent.
True Copy)
Richard Woosnam