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being converted into

a

Jurmanent

Military

Post.

Shave Le.

...

Coby

Size

261

War Department

315 March 1855

110.6.129 Pau 2155

J. Wood, Esq.

With reference to my letter of the

22nd September and your answer thereto

dated 4th October of last year,

I am

directed by Lord Panmure to transmit

to

You

accompanying copy of

a

Despatch with its enclosures from the Acting Governor of Hong Kong, relative to the sum proposed to be given either in the shape of purchase money or compensation for "Edger's Bungalow", lately occupied by the Military

As a

Battery, and two other lots of ground in the neighbourhood. And I am to request that in laying

the

...

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