(Signed) W. Caine
Colonial Secretary,
True Copy.
(Copy)
Record.
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The foundation stone of this, the first Protestant Episcopal Church ever erected on the confines of China to the worship of Almighty God through Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, was laid on the 11th day of March, 1847, in the 10th year of the Reign of Our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen Victoria, by His Excellency Francis Davis, Baronet, Governor-in-Chief of Hongkong, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, & Commander-in-Chief and Vice Admiral of...
in the presence of
The Honorable Major General d'Aguilar, C.B.
Honorable Major Caine, Colonial Secretary.
Honorable A. R. Johnston.
Honorable E. M. Campbell, Acting Attorney General.
Reverend V. Stanton, Colonial Chaplain.
Major Aldrich, Commanding Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant Charles St. George Cleverly.
Mr. Murrow Gomersal.
John Pope, Esq.
Black of Markets.
The structure was designed, and is to be executed by Charles St. George Cleverly, Esq., Surveyor General.
Estimated Expenditure £9,600.0.0
(Signed) J. F. Davis
Governor,
Colonial Secretary.