other street, is cleared therewith, and the rental of Forty eight dollars eleven shillings and six pence fixed thereon, at which rate and allowed to recoup this Lot.
Alic beland Lot, pro should have been rated according to the degree of its approximation to the Lots in Wellington Street, (a good long sheet, second Colony, with transverse Roads in every direction), and every allowance made for its inutility; except as an adjunct to Lots No2291 and 292. This is a very hard case to pay such a rental on a back yard:
Inland Lot. N340. this is a small piece of ground bought by me in May 1849, in consequence of a Lender made by me to this Government to purchase the Coolie Stand thereon erected; this Lot is very steep and rocky, in fact there is not a piece of level Land ten feet square in it, save the site of the Coolie stand for which Building a slice was cut out of part of the mountain; it is certainly to be expected that
Mow and them expensive cutting, 378 inte the mountains will fall to the lot of Landholders in Hong Kong, and another heavy item of expense is, carrying debris off the Lots to the sea shore; any improvement of Inland Lot. N2340 must be attended with these expenses, and then a flight of very steep and rocky steps must be its entrance, it is so very rocky; with such drawbacks, you have rated this Lot overrated, and I pray a reduction.
Marine Lots No 25, 29.294, 30 and 30-A: there are situated further away from the Town, East, than my Marine Lots West, there has been 110 Marine Town Lots sold since 1843, (three excepted). I did not settle here until 1844, consequently missed the first sales. Marine Lots situated between the Western Market and West Boundary of the Cantonment are Town Lots, all others suburban. These Lots 1225, 29, 29.A., 30, and 30A., are situated on the other side of the Cantonment, far from Victoria Proper; and the Cantonment;