CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 229

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lots

os

parties who had taken

on

random speenlation before stated, and had

neither entered

themselves

non

on

the same

sold them

to others, threw them up

rather than pay any

rent.

The largest holder was a person of the name

of Vesey,

a speculator in buildings and

capital,

land, without

any

and who after bearming hopelessly involved quitted the Colony - Mass = Jardine Matheson the who

by far the w

Lots

are

to the

largest owners of improved

in Hongkong, present amount of £ 674

rental per annum,

annum, therew

up foun of their unimproved

224

Tots, and as they at least

popeped the means) Sinsisted

their paying

on

all arrears.

to the date of resignation._ in their instance,

I

succeeded

but there

من

still the doubt

whether, under the terms of the Lease, I might not have been obliged to be satisfied

with the

mere

re-entry

on the

untouched and unimproved

Lots. Many

Many of the other

parties, as already observed,

speculators who never

were

popeped the means of converting

the lots to their

own use, and

who, having been unable to dispose of them at a profit, threw them up when called

for Rent - With reference

on

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