turn ono out.
.
of my hourd, and Shad
other tags to the average
11.0
at which the
Let was afterwards assessed was at upwards of £.45 for 105 feet square, instead of at £. 20, a pentab of £. 83.5.10 1⁄2, which
ally since 1843.
I have paid
My claims, therefore, is that the allotment be assessed at £.30 p-103 fact squarey and not the erroneous assessment adopted by the Government. Thaar to add that both Dr. Young
5.
and Mr. Lena
6 Colony, and it is
will shortly leave the Colony. desirable that your Committer should
receive their evidence with as little
as possible.
delay
Liques) W. Sott.
Hongkong, 31th Oct 1849.
Copy
fol
Conial Secretary
L
To
(Letter 2.)
(Copy)
Gentlemen,
Hongkong, 20 + toer.
346
20th 1849.
In support of the representation
contained in me
my
communication dated. 31 ch
to you
the
altimo, I now beg leave to submit to cnclosed declarations of Dr Young and of Mr. Lena which I trust will be sufficient to
prove to you that the
Lot 80 was
E grant of 20
onado anterior to the appointment of the Land
the March, 1842, and that Committee of 29
thereford the entry referred to by the Committer
stauding
of that date as Land Office, is, to say
notice the
to mer in
in
the Book of the
it, erroneoust
the back of it,
least
I cannot help bringing to your
· peculiar unfairness that was shown "the (then secret ) Report of the last
The Hon. W. C. Mercer, Esq.
C. St. G. Cleverly I W Smith,
Mr Davidson,
C. J. F. Stuart,
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