40

in

it extend at least on four as the cocks at the foot of Lot marked M: 86 the Survey (Hcerjetling Horopital 8Bith), but if my flow for reclaiming the bound front of the Wong, inveling tally

in

land

were to be carried out, then I would have the Praya to go round the foot of the hill and join the sea wall lining the reclaimed land, and

would also continue it Eastwards

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of the Valley to the "Praya", the property of Messrs Jardine, Matheson, & Co. Westward from Government Hill, the

Praya might be extended out for

some

way

towards

Nowry Bay, and the land there reclaimed

would form a number of very valuable Marine Lots. The part of the Lower Bazaar which is on the sea beach

with Jam anirinced be destroyed

destroyed

ed by

the first Typhoon or by a heaving gale

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were it, substantially

of sand; but even were

Jam

"built, I am decidedly of opinion that it should be removed, and the sites

let for European Warehouses.

That line of sea frontage is far too valuable to be used for paltry Chinese

houses.

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I propose that a Public Broadway, 50 to the day of Fifty (57) Feet in width, should be left along the Praya the space between that and the liner to be the private property of the owners of the

10 Lots, and that they should have permission to erect Piers for the convenience of landing their Goods, but, of course, not the right of charging wharfage for other parties using them. All the persons who have already become purchasers of Marine Lots are

willing

to assist in

carrying out this plan, and to pay

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