Colonial officer
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be suitable? But
may
Ja
to remark that
the terms of the
Convention of Pekina,
Commissioners were
by
afforded
the Earl of Elgin, and by the Chinese Govt to assess these compensations and the occupants of Land must be paid the amount so awarded
on
be left undisturbed.
I am further directed by the Duke of
Newcastle
to transmit to you for the information of Lord de Grey the copy of a despatch
from the Officer Administering the Govt of HongKong, forwarding a correspondence
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with Major Genl Brown
respecting
a
spot of
in the Peninsula
ground required by the Major Genl for the erection of a model hut. I am to add that this correspondence does not at the present moment Demand the expression of any opinion on the part of His
Excellency The
T.