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as they

are

kept under proper

control by a Military & Naval

erior to their own.

Sower super

It will be

my

duty to

transmit copies of this

correspondence

condence to the Inspector General of Fortifications to be, at his pleasure, laid before the Secretary of State for War,

mean time I beg with due respect to repeat my application of the 26th ulto for the Pot of Sand, East of

and in the

the East Guard House to be

applied to Military purposes.

I have re

BJ H. W. Sugard

Lient: Colonel

coming Rl. Engl.

Copy.

Sir,

that

Royal Engineer's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,

26th June 1857.

I have the honor to request

you

the

will bring to the notice of His Excellency Commander of the Forces that

an Allotment of Land on the last side of the East Guard House of this cantonment

there is

which it is

very

desirable

should be transferred to the War Department for important Military objects; and to suggest for the Lient: General's approval that an application be made by His Excellency

The Deputy Quarter Master Seneral

fa

te.

te

Hong Kong

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