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Foreign Office

For Offi

Ming

Offer

406

Nord Standing

Thanks soot this be enforced to the Land and lenghi Coned?

Shingh the former Rafters 2.376 Ang

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worn word de afered?

Send to the both the farmer county

should also

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in 1683 Huy Kary.

Statement of

Lots of Land in

RECEIVED

008 4

508

a claim to certain

a

Land in Hong Kong, by Robert

Webster, British Merchant in China;

for the information of The Right Hon ble Lord Stanley, Socretary of

State for

the Colonial Department.

In May 18442 a

Grant was made

by Sir Henry Pottinger, Governor of

Hong Kong, of some lots of

land

On

Island to Captain & Meik, who inne de

that

immediately

there after expended a considerable sum

of money in Culting down and

levelling levelt the ground; and had made considerable progress in erecting buildings upon it, when

he was in consequences of sickness obliged to leave the Island. On his departure

he left written instructions with the Beat Mr. Shuck to dispose of the lots, and

buildings thereon, in the state in which;

bought

Stood;

they

by

Gre

and

they

Lalalo

and another party for 960