COA
No 208.
403
Sir,
Government House, Hong Kong, 17th May, 1843.
I am directed by His Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger to request, that you will provide temporary accommodations for a detachment, consisting of Two Officers and Forty Men who are to be for the present stationed there for the protection of the Houses and Inhabitants in that neighbourhood. For any further information you may require on the subject, His Excellency desires me to refer you to the acting Assistant Quarter Master General, who will point out the site he has fixed.
A. T. Gordon
Sept.
Land Officer