م الله
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From J. F. Davis.
February
to
The Earl Grey.
Received
N33
Announcing
1848.
his intended
departure for England by
the mail Steamer which
is to leave Hongkong
in March next.
J 34
Miscellaneous
My Lord,
Victoria, Hongkong,
26th February, 1848.
I have been requested to transmit
to your Lordship the enclosed Memorial
from certain European inhabitants of this Colony.
on the subject of Ground rents
Whatever the amount of the Ground
rents may be,
that it was self-imposed, having been the
result of public competition at Auctions.
The Memorialists advert to "the absence of any
active local Trade capable of supporting
a burthen"; but the Blue Book, with
my Report for the year 1847, will perhaps
convince Your Lordship that the year elapsed has shewn the commencement and existence of a trade
The Right Honorable,
The Earl Grey