Land
Board
192 Hong Kong
RECEIVED
FEB 6 1849
153
Colonial Land and Emigration Office
5th February 1849.
Ser
We have to acknowledge
the receipt of your
letter
of the 17th Nov. 1848, accompanied by a
Despatch from the Governor
of Hong Kong, reporting that he
had directed the Surveyor
General of the Colony to strike
off the Rent roll certain lots of Land the arrears on which were quite irrecoverable.
2.
As it appears from the Return which accompanies Mr Bonham's despatch that the Lots in question had