Buildings the difficulty you mention might be got over. With regard to the Magazine I should propose keeping the road so far off the hill as to form it in a somewhat deep cutting and so that the Magazine would be out of sight to passers by.
I have seen...
(Signed) J. Meleon
Acting Surveyor General
True Copy (Signed) L. Carvalho
Kucp.
Kamp & block Ret
mythong 5
220
Sple
403
Mar Office. S. 1.
5th October 1865.
Memorandum for the Commanding Royal Engineer at Hongkong with reference to the letter of the 25th July last, relative to the proposed construction of a Road near the new Powder Magazine.
The accompanying copy of Memorandum by the Director of Works is forwarded for the information and guidance of the C. R. E. who is requested to report further on the Subject.
(Signed) Arthern Kennedy
for
the Director of Public Works