Peninsula should be
Called for from a Placed Commission, and that the Secretary Berkley has accordingly sent the requisite instructions to Sir Hope Grant to nominate
a Military Officer to form conjunction with a Naval Officer and the Governor of Hong Kong the proposed Commission.
I transmit a copy of Mr. ...'s letter (No. 394) which embodies the views of Mr. Herbert, as to the expediency of providing adequate and healthy barrack accommodation for the troops stationed at Kowloon.
This will be laid before the Officers composing the Commission. You will be good enough to give the necessary instructions to the Surveyor General;
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