Besides the above explanation, think it right to remark to prevent having future misconception that you have been entirely misinformed as to Mr Jamieson How Ht (or any other Farms similarly situated) erecting Buildings remote from the usual Police Stations.
Captain Elliot's first step after taking possession of this Island in 1841 was to request Her Majesty's Senior Naval and Military Authorities to select such locations as they considered best suited for their respective Departments.
A Committee which assembled by order of Commodore Gordon Bremer, composed of three Post Captains of the Royal Navy fixed on the spot where the Naval Stores are now situated near West Point, which location has since borne the name of "Navy Bay" and which was further marked off and specially reserved at the request of the Admiral Sir William Parker subsequent to his arrival in China.
Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Gough himself selected the site of the Barracks at West Point at present abandoned, (as well as those of the other Barracks on the island) so that you will perceive that Mr Jamieson How H (and other Proprietors of premises in the Western Quarter of this Colony) had every reason to hope and believe that they would be amply protected from their close vicinity to West Point Barracks and Navy Bay intended to be a chief Military and the only Naval Station in the Colony.
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