CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12] — Page 70

In 1885 Her, Pary.

The Right Hand

Lord Stanley.

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HC.M. Principal Secretary of State

My Lord,

For the Colonies

K&

The period has at length arrived, when, as Teniers

of land & property at Hongstong,

longer refrain from

we can po

addressing ourselves direct to Hell. Government, in the confident hope, that a plain statement of facts will induce H.M. Advisers, A sanction a material modification

of the system, which has hitherto been in operation, occasioning results. alike injurious to the interests of the mercantile Community, and the real and essential interests of the Settlement.

"I will scarcely

cely be no. cessary for us, in the first place ; to submit, that shortly after the Island was first ceded, or taken possession of by H.M. Thenipotentiary in China, in the early part of 1841,

A-

a public rate of land was held, at which it was stipulated, that

the