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be strongly urges the necessity of restricting the use of this land, as he considers that the water supply for the use of the Troops must inevitably be polluted if the land be cultivated by the Chinese; and he points out that the large Wen Department Magazine will be placed in a state
of great insecurity if the new road, now in course
of construction, be carried out, as designed in close proximity to, and above, this Magazine. An extract from the Report of the General Officer Commanding is annexed
for