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the General and am anxious that
An early decision should be arrived
at to enable the Colony itself of the most suitable period of the year for constructing the Road and settling the proposed
Pokfulam Site.
Government House Hongkong 7th June
the June 1866
Sir,
I have the honor to refer
to my despatch No. 47 of the 29th ult., requesting you to withhold
your sanction to any arrangement respecting
the Colonial Boundary
of the Military Cantonments in this Colony, till I had received some
further information for which I
had applied.
(Signed) Richard Graves MacDonnell
Governor.
(True Copy)
[Signature of Colonial Secretary]
The Right Honorable
Edward Cardwell M.P.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
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