CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 627

House Rent and Office Rent, - that the amount of those allowances should be recovered monthly pan their Abstracts, and that the balance of the Rent of Mr. Lane's House should be advanced monthly pom the Civil Treasury until the pleasure of Her Majesty's bevemment

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the matter should be received.

It is perhaps as well I should.

admitting that the

add that

ever

House at present in Lord Saltoun's occupation be permanently assigned

the residence of the General Officer Commanding, it seems to me

me advisable

for

that it should be taken down to admit

of the Hill on which it is built being "cut down, and that therefore any

steps for repairing

it as it now stands

would I conceive be a useless expense-

: The House in question

was one

of the

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earliest erected in the Colony at a moment that the retention of this Island by Her Majesty

was a

matter

of doubt and I do not think that the House could be altered or repaired

do at

to

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(except by rebuilding) suitable residence for the Soneral - Officer Commanding with his personal

staff.

The Revd

(Signed) Henry Pottinger.

Vincent Stanton

Victoria, Hongkong

Sir

25 January, 1844.

I am directed by His Excellency

the Governor in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date

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