10.
406
18.
interfering
on
these terms with the surrounding
cultivation. there being about 50 acres
under paddy or garden Cultivation close to
the huto. But I submit that the
question of Expense
~
was one
which ought
to have been considered in the first instance
before determining
location for Troops,
on
quardian of the Chinese Owners and
clause of the Occupiers of the territory who, by Treaty are entitled to all the rights
convention of Peking
Stipulations,
of Proprietorship until their claims shall
be purchased by the British Government.
the site for a temporary
9.
I have
as in an unimproved as
State the situation was
for
obviously unfit
a Cantonment, and the terms upon which it could have been improved and the consequent Experise of improving it, were matters which could only have been ascertained by application to myself, who had been constituted by Lord Elgin, not only the Supreme Executive Anthimity over the New Territory, but also the ~
Juke of Newcastle de der Hercules Robinson. Me 45 of 17 May 1861
felt it due to myself to
make the fore going. observations because
my proceedings in suspending the works
ow
Napier's Range had the misfortune
to be disapproved of by Your Grace upon
the
ds that,
grounds
"Although it would have been proper "that the Military Authorities should have "applied for the leave of the Governor to erect
huts
use of the Soldiers on Napier's Range, it would have been clearly the duty
to have given a prompt assent "to their application (as a measure of a merely
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the
" of the Governor to have
"temporary Character) unless he was able