No 28, 1845.
Inclosure No 2 in dispatch
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Extract of a Letter from Treasurer Hwang, in reply to an Letter from the Provincial.
application from Sir Henry Pottinger.
First rate Land in the neighbourhood of Canton producing annually above 700 catties of paddy values 60 Taels per Mow:
Second rate land producing about 400 catties paddy per annum values 30 Taels per Mow.
Third-rate land producing above 100 catties paddy values above 10 Taels per Mow
(True Translation)
(signed) Sh. Gutzlaff
Chinese Secretary
True Copy
"Frederick Mr. A. Bruce
Duplicate
price in perpetuity. $30 per mow as recommended by Committee, 14th May, 1844.