the Surveyor-General placed themselves
the punctual communication.
By
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Communiqué your "Answered. Enumuni-
cation of 11th September" I presume is meant your reply of 12th September to my letter of the other and I am directed to observe that, as the Land Sale to which you referred was then approaching, it was not intended to interfere with any ground which it was possible to permit the Ordnance to occupy, His Excellency did not conceive it necessary then to adopt the measure which, towards the conclusion of your reply, you suggested.
The Surveyor-General shall be instructed to communicate with the Commanding Royal Engineer. The Copy Colonial Secretary.
I have, &c., (Signed) W. J. Mercer, Colonial Secretary.
(Copy.) Sir,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, 3rd January 1856.
The Respective Officers of Ordnance are desirous of having the Ordnance Boundaries at West Point finally defined and marked out, and with this view I am instructed to direct you to place yourself in communication with the Commanding Royal Engineer.
As it is laid down in various Despatches from successive Secretaries of State for the Colonies that this city should not be dependent for its protection against an outward Enemy upon the supremacy of the Naval Force in the harbour, His Excellency
Chas. St. G. Cleverly, Esquire, Surveyor-General.