(Letter 7.)
361
Cantor, 30th Novr. 1849.
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1850
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therm regarding
8 lots
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Land held
16th Nov 1849.
The Honble. W. C. Mercer, Leg:
Chas: St. George Cleverly, Esqre- J. W. Smith, Esq.
Charles J. Fr. Stuart - Esq: Walter Davidson, Esq:
Gentlemen,
Committee for inquiring
into the Land Cenurd
of the Colony of Hongkong
of
We beg to bring to the notice
the mode of
the Committee a
measuring
a grievance
vis
the Lots of Land in the Island of Hongkong, which in our opinion presses
voice in
much unjustly on the purchaser, who has no regulating the size of the lots, but is compelled to take them as measured by the Surveyor General, though a great part
be perfectly useless to him. We think the position in which we ourselves are placed by the purchase of the 2 Inland
may
Lots numbered 53 and 54 will show
the Committee the grounds of our complaint