village of Tam Chun should be included within the boundary!
Our letter of 18 April "strongly confirmed" this opinion. But in a despatch dated 28 April, Sir H. Blake says, (after a reference to the strong feeling on the subject in the Colony) "Such a district even being confined to the hill Chern to the summit of the range entirely requires and to additional large increase of the police force to create a previous addition of the expenses of the Colony.
541 In my opinion, the river boundary, as already settled is in the Colony, Colonel Mesny's view and so far as I am concerned, I do not consider further desirable.
On the 10th May, Sir H. Blake telegraphs "We ought to take valley up to hills, as previously proposed, we cross ...
The following day he telegraphs "But our consideration would predawn to confine ourselves to occupation of strip drawing line from north (? town) fork of river south of Wong Pai Ling." In a