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S. WATSON & CO
LONDON.
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Asst unter Eiritary of State for the falonies 6512
To John Bramston
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Downing Street-
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REGE 26 SER X4
Your letter of the 19th dust" (/(as & Kowloon Garden Loto, has been handed to one by my
brother and as
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should be exceedingly carry for you to think that I had through him troubled you with insufficient reason I beg
leave to state the grounds of my doing
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After my arrival in Hongkong in April last I called upon the Honble Bt Marsh Colonial Leere- -tury on the subject and he told one that a for- - mission had been appointed but had sent in
no report, and that one of its members the Nouble Mr Price Surveyor General Lad recommended that it should send in none, but allow them whole thing to lapse until the leases ran out And then resume, re lay out the ground, and But it up to Public Auction. recommended me to see Mr Ackroyd Chairman of the Commission, and on my asking if I might use the information he had given one, he told me I could make any use I liked
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After seeing the Chairman of offered to hear me in evidence ? wrot them
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