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your information; and I am to for to request that you will cause the steps necessary to give effect to the views of Sir George Lewis, is expressed in that letter to be taken.
Instructions will be sent to the Commanding Royal Engineer, as to the trial to be proceeded with.
I am Sir, &c.
(Signed) De Brey and Ripon
(True Copy)
(Signed) H.B. Savory, Lieutenant and Assistant Military Secretary
A Copy.
The Colonial Office, 24th February 1863.
I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd July and 15th September last further on the subject of the appropriation of the land recently ceded by the Chinese Government on the Kowloon Peninsula.
Sir George Lewis has not failed.
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.
G.