CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843 — Page 295

4.30. 1848.

Du Por Henry Pottingeri

My Lord,

in 762 Hongkong

ADC

237

Government House, Honghong

May &

6.1945.

Enclosure No. 5 of my despatch No. 50 of the 12th ultimo, will have shewn your Lordship that I was about to make arrangements for having a Survey of the northern Face of this Island made.

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I have now the honour to submit, for the information of His Lordship, copies of Four letters connected with the same subject:

Copy of a letter, dated the 15th of April to Captain Clement Edwards of H.M's 10th Regt., appointing him to conduct the survey.

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