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For any further communication on this subject, it is requested that the Letter following the date 945 COME Mail bo 7:149 may be quoted.
5762 Hong Kong Admiralty
RECEIVED 9 JUN 1860.
Jam 74. J. commanded 1860 E landed by mustards transmit Comicsticiers (sic) of the Admiralty, to be laid before him, copy of Letter from Vice Admiral Hope, respecting the perpetual lease from the Governor General of Canton, to the Government of the Convention of Kowloon and Stone Cutters Island, and suggesting that the Maritime Government will not grant any portion of the Peninsula, either for Colonial or other purposes, until the unto (the) Annexation oftate (of the territory).
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