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latter sum
£751. 2.8 is applicable to the
repair
of the field Officer quarters.
With reference to the 5th paragraph of your
letter the Major
General will instruct the
Commanding Royal Engineer to take immediate
steps for the repair of the field officers' Quarters, or the officers quarters without competent authority.
Regarding your 7th Paragraph, I am
directed to state,
the Major
General considers
the
only
the
Detachments at Stanley and Saiwan are
necessary
in a
Civil point of view, and for
protection of Ordnance property at those places.
They
are a
drain on the Garrison of Victoria,
and would be totally untenable in case
of attack by the
superior forces, as they can be turned from neighbouring bays on both flanks of each, and their
Communication with Head Quarters easily cut off.
A1⁄2 18.
Miscellaneous.
Copy
to
Land D. 12. Mune po.
July /50
And s
N 188.
My Lord,
MAY.27 1850
Victoria, Hong Kong,
19th March, 1850.
"I have the love to enclose a letter
from Mr Ain Burd, a merchant of this place, which being addressed to your Lordship I consider it my duty to forward.
...
his claim
and the question on which Mr Ain Burd's former
arose so long ago as 1844, and Mr Chisholm,
the Surveyor General of the Colony,
was concerned
in the valuation of Mr Burd's property, I directed
that Gentleman to report the
case, and now enclose that
(True Copy)
By Colonial Secretary.
I have to (Signed.) C.M. Staveley,
Captain, A. A. G.
thereon.
3. Mr. Secretary's Report
The Right Honorable
The Lord Frey
Earl G
oney,
78
circumstances of the
Officer's
observations
Emurcy's
all the
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