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permission to do so.

With respect to the mode of proceeding

soon

to

on this occasion, I leave it to yourselves fix the sum that

you

are to pay to the Proprietors with these Persons, and as seen at that is done, it will be necessary for you to have the sale and payment of the Trice registered and witnessed in the office of the "Land and Road Inspector", which will be done on Your applying to Mr Johnston - the Deputy Superintendent, who will remain in charge of

charge of the Government of Hongtting, during my absence..

In thus acceding to your request, it is perhaps unnecessary for me to remark, 1 you state, that the

that I have assumed _ as.

Proprietors are willing to sell their land

to

to you;

and it is further expedient, that_. I

hould distinetly intimate to

that the

you. tenure: on which will hold your Purobate,

- you will- solely depend on whatever Regulations

ነ

this

Her Majesty's Government may be pleased. to lay down hereafter, with respect to granting and

and appropriating land ex Island, as I do not possess. Authority to define _ those points at this moment..

I have to

(Signed) Henry Pottinger. Chief Superintendent.

True Arpy)

Richard Woosnam