371
you
could not
+
jest
him.
2. he reply, I am to inform you
that 110 Shortiede being your tenant, he could not have disputed his landlords
title in an should
you
gcctment or action for rent,
have
Aare sccn-
to such a measure.
3.
Your
fit
to have recourse
As regards the concluding part of letter, I
I am dirceted to say that
yourself and other sien lisices of the Crown
ILLAY
f
with safety build on the lots ground which you respectively hold by resignment from the brown; that proses the ortinare resucties
you
against
defaulting tenants, and that in the
crent of your wanting to sell on transfer your property, the Crown
would confirm the assignment when
there
there
was us supervening difficulti while the Supreme Court, acting
decided ease, would
grant
ma
administration
of the chattels real even to Alicus. There
is no
freehold tenure in the Colony 4. This question, however, umus, from your representation, to be mi of such grave importance to the interests of foreigners reciding a to
as well as to the welfare of
Honghong, as
at
the Colony itself, that it is desirable
to remove any
doubt or apprehension
on the part of foreigners
as to the
validity of conveyance by aliens _ His hreellency will therefore lose no time in bringing the subject before the