Received
Reporting appointment of Lord Elgin's Commission to investigate claims on Kowloon.
The Duke of Newcastle / Inclosure.
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Sir,
Hongkong, 19th January, 1861.
I have the honor to enclose the copy of a letter of appointment naming D. B. Robertson, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, and the Honorable Charles St George Cleverly, Surveyor-General of this Colony, to be Commissioners to investigate the claims of Chinese to property on that portion of the Kowloon Peninsula.
His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Hongkong,