connected with that Trade Harbour, so long.
entering this as he shall be allowed to exercise the privileges and calling of Head Weighman
It is the intention of Government to take an early opportunity of placing the Ballastrade of this Colony under the special supervision of responsible Servants of Government, and His Excellency the Governor in Council will be glad to be favored with the joint opinion of yourself and M. Butzlaff as to how that object will be best effected and the rules and establishments that it will require.
looking arrangement to its both as a Revenue and Police
I have &c.
(Signed) Richard Hornby
No:161.
The Honorable Major Caine, The Reverend Charles Butzlaff, A. J. Gordon and Gentlemen,
HongKong, April 17th 1844.
No:1
and In reply to your letter marked "Mat" of the 11th instant, reporting on the Petition from Ho:chung which had been referred to you, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor in Council to acquaint you, and to beg that you will intimate to the new applicant "Ying: Kong", that the only indulgence that can be granted to him under the peremptory instructions from Her Majesty's Government is that of selecting a lot (either marine or Inland) after the next sale, at the average rate of such sale of similar lots, but that in all other respects he must be prepared to