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