No. of Date of Desp: Despi
1849.
Subjects of Despatch.
25. March 12 Transmitting the Blue Book of Hongkong for 1848, and reporting on the state of the Colony...... 8.
26. " 15 16th. Reporting transportation to Penang of one Malay Convict and ten Chinese Convicts..
28 " Fransmitting Rule of Court of Easter Term, 1th March, 1849), establishing two additional yearly sittings a
29. " 2g nd " Reporting the murder of Captain Da bosta, of the Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant Dwyer of the th Ceylon Rifles, on the 25th February last, at Wong kok, on the south side of the Island..
30. March 25th Reporting departure of the Surveyor General to Shanghai for the purpose of surveying the ground and preparing plans for the Consulate proposed to be built there..
31. " 24th Acknowledging receipt of His Lordship's Despatch No. 83 of the 18th December, 1848, calling for Report on the Expenditure of the Colony in all its Branches, Civil, Naval, and Military, and deferring his reply thereto until the settlement of the question relative to the entry into the city of Canton.
32. " 26th Transmitting copy of, and reporting on Ordinance No. 2 of 1849, entitled "An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance 7 3 of 1846, entitled 'An Ordinance for the relief of Insolvent Debtors within the Colony of Hongkong'". One
33. " Reporting abolition of the duty levied on goods sold by auction, and increase of the Fee on Auctioneers' licences to $150 per annum..
No. of Date Desp: Desp
1849.
Subject of Despatch.
... appointment of 14 of the principal mercantile gentlemen in the Colony as Magistrates and Justices of the Peace for Hongkong
Encl: Bore..
Forwarding copy of Comparative Statements showing estimated and Actual Revenue and Expenditure of Hongkong, for the year ended 11th December, 1848.
None.
Yours.