Dorf (21857/90) which shows that the rule is no new but was laid down as early as 1845.
1.27.6 Thing in Hery ling age S.W.2.26/6
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Government House, Hongkong, 6th May, 1891.
My Lord,
With reference to my despatch N. 39 of the 20th of February in which I informed Your Lordship that the Surveyor General had been instructed
The Right Honourable Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G.,