whether by night or by day.
Palso propose that substantial and comfortable Station Houses for the Police to be thus formed, shall be estimated for, and built on spots selected for that purpose, with the least possible delay.
(Signed) Henry Pottinger.
The Honorable,
Sir
Major General D'Aquilas C. B.
Commanding the Troops in China.
Victoria, Hong Kong. January 26th 1844.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No: 4 of yesterday's date regarding the Houses now occupied by No: 44 by Lord Saltown and by your Staff being placed at your disposal for the accommodation of Officers of the Garrison.
In reply I beg to inform you that I have no such authority over the Houses in question as they are either private property or else appertain exclusively to the Military Department, as is shown by a minute which I recorded in Council on the 24th Instant, and transmitted a copy of which to you in my Letter No: 411 of yesterday's date.
I have never received any reply to my letter to Lord Saltoun referred to in that minute, but will observe that should it be still your wish to let the question of the houses rest as it is, until the receipt of Instructions from England, I am prepared to have it intimated to the Owners of the three houses
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