1085 by 1850
Enclosure No 8 in
Despatch
(Copy)
7
(Letter 6)
the Committee
for investigating
Gentlemen,
the tenure
of Land in Hongkong.
We beg leave to lay before you
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statements relative to certain land in this Colony held by
us,
being lots
numbered 51, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139.
At the
commencement
of the
year 1842, we purchased from Major Caine
a lot of ground with a small Bungalow built upon it, for
the sum
of
Five thousand
Dollars.
The extent of this land included
the whole of that comprised in the lots
above-mentioned.
The
purchase
arrangement for
the
same was made upon the faith that Major Caine had at the time absolute right
and title to the land in
question, it
having
been
granted to him by Capt. Elliot,
and by Fr. Antonio Feliciani, regarding a portion of the land Lot N.50.
Letter from the Reverend
31st October, 1849.