asy Statement" be referred home for the decision of the Right Honble Secretary of State for the Colonies, I should wish the reference to be made with such remarks as the Executive Council may feel disposed to add.
By next mail, if a further statement from me on the history of my conduct since Feby 1840 is required, I will write it, but it appears to me calculated that it would be only tending to render more intricate by burthening with extraneous matter a question already unfortly complicated enough.
I have, &c.
(Signed) A. R. Johnston.
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Statement Regarding Mr. Johnston's house and Lot of Land. Registered Inland Lot Nr. 82,
for which Government has received rent up to the present date.
Mr Johnston's duties, whilst charged with the Government of Hongkong, absolutely required his residence on the spot. His own health and that of his Servants had been suffering for some time past for want of proper accommodation, and there was little prospect of his being able to get a house to hire in any reasonable time. Mr Johnston therefore in May 1842 applied to Sir Henry Pottinger for leave to erect...