Superintending Surgeon's letter which returned I am directed by His Excellency in Council to say that the supply of Medicines now furnished must be considered to be annually allotted for Canton - to the Eastward of Government House Hill: having been allotted for preventing misunderstandings and public as well private inconvenience - it is necessary that the three houses that have been built and required from the Military Medical Stores have been supplied.
(Signed) Richard Woosley. Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co. N. Duus Esqre and Robert Edwards Esqre. Gentlemen, Victoria, Hong Kong. January 26th 1844. No: 48
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor in Council to inform you that the ground lying immediately to the Eastward of Government House Hill, that ground severally belonging to you, and at present occupied by Major General Lord Saltown, Major Brant and Captain D'Aquilar, should be rented alone by Government, pending the receipt of Instructions from England, and you are therefore requested on becoming vacant (as they are shortly expected to be) to hold them at the disposal of Mr Commissary General Coffin, who will - under the orders of the Honorable Major General D'Aquilar Commanding Her Majesty's Land Forces in China - pay the monthly rent to you.