485 & 1850.

nclosure Noll in Despatch

Letter from

Brr A. Carter,

regarding Marine lob N. 44.

30th November, 1849.

368

9.)

(Letter 9th Victoria, Hongkong,

To the

21st November, 1849.

Committer investigating the

Land Cenure of this Colony.

Gentlemen

They

to lay claim for

reduction of the present high rent of Lot

No 9

one

being

: it is indeed without exception

of the worst lots in

the worst lots in the Cown, but

little central, and the mania

for

building being in its prime, this lot was deemed desirable and accepted by

me

at its upset rental, in compensation for

and in

certain ground

South boundary

the Cantonment. The

is one

hundred and

feet above it's North frontage

a huge mass of rocks and

notwithstanding

;

thirty

it is a

Springs,

and

I have spent

three

thousand dollars in improving it, it now

scarcely brings in sufficient to pay

the

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