CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844 — Page 263

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Memorandum showing the nature such Buildings.

any

We have not the most remote intention of imputing to the Committer but the most fair and impartial feeling, and had the proceedings and "Buildings in the Colony commenced with the Ratification of the Treaty of

Nankin, we

word to say

Governor, our

should not have had a

on

the subject ;

bet

a

we cannot

too strongly urge upon the levernment at home, through His Excellency, the

claims, as Holders of Land under brants and Sales which wer klieved to be valid and on the faith of which we have expended so large an amount of time and money, to as moderate conditions and tenure of property as obtain in other British

Colonies, a principle which under the

circumstances

circumstances, we feel the greatest

confidence will be conceded.

Ye have te,

Victoria, HongKong (Signed) Jardine Matheson Ho

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