Copy No.823.
Hongkong, 18th September 1858
Captain Cooper, R. E.
Acting Surveyor General
Sir,
I have to request an acknowledgement of the letter which I addressed to you on the 16th instant.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most Obedient Servant,
(Signed) A. Hudson.
Copy No. 20.
Surveyor General's Office
Victoria, 18th September 1856.
Agreeably to your request of this date, I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th, but as I am of opinion that the questions therein arise from misconstruction of the terms of Ordinance 8 of 1856, I must decline to answer those questions.
I am, sir,
Your most Obedient Servant,
(Signed) William Cauperz
Acting Surveyor General.
A. R. Hudson Esq.
Copy No. H.
Captain Cooper
Sir,
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Hongkong, 18th September 1856.
Acting Surveyor General
With reference to your letter No. 20 of this date in reply to mine of 18th instant, I beg to state that if you will be good enough to point out to me my misconstruction of the terms of Ordinance No. 4 of 1856, I shall endeavour to frame the questions which I require to ask in conformity with your amended reading. Requesting your attention at your earliest convenience, as my stay here just now is solely occasioned by the necessity of bringing my correspondence with the local Government to a close.
I am, Sir,
Copy No. 21.
Your most Obedient Servant,
(Signed) A. R. Hudson
Surveyor General's Office
Victoria, 19th September 1856.
In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, I am constrained to decline furnishing you with a copy of the reading of the Ordinance No. 3 of 1856, for, if the terms of any section of that Ordinance justified you in your legal adviser's opinion in asking me such questions as that where the adjudicated nuisance was, when removing the materials were sold, and what part of the product I am prepared to place at your disposal, it follows that