CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 37

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All AI Reviewed

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Of the Permit has been held during the past year under Military rule & the views of the Home Govt for its disposal being still unknown, caused the oversight to be committed of commencing the building of these huts on uncultivated land, without first asking the permission of the Governor of Kowloon (now Hong Kong), a formality rendered necessary by the peninsula having been placed under H.E's jurisdiction in Jan. last.

I very much regret this oversight which I fully admitted in my letters of the 11th & 13th March, in which I formally demanded H.E's permission to erect the huts, but with no satisfactory result.

As in his letter of the ... March, Sir Hercules Robinson states that his "authority had been so frequently set at nought during the past year" that he was compelled at last to make an official remonstrance, I requested in...

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##Of the Permit has been held during the past year under Military rule & the views of the Home Govt for its disposal being still unknown, caused the oversight to be committed of commencing the building of these huts on uncultivated land, without first asking the permission of the Governor of Kowloon (now Hong Kong), a formality rendered necessary by the peninsula having been placed under H.E's jurisdiction in Jan. last.I very much regret this oversight which I fully admitted in my letters of the 11th & 13th March, in which I formally demanded H.E's permission to erect the huts, but with no satisfactory result.As in his letter of the ... March, Sir Hercules Robinson states that his "authority had been so frequently set at nought during the past year" that he was compelled at last to make an official remonstrance, I requested in...
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during the past year under

Military

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"year" that he was compelled as

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