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the question for U

the Consideration of His Exceliney the Acting Governor, as to what he

pleased

to direct for

the

may

be

proscention of the service

at the present time without further delay, for

with

as

now constituted I

am

my Staff unable to execute the work, The Storey not

being a Surveyor; - I

am unable myself

to leave the Colony for a lengthened period, indispensably necessary in effecting a duly

which will veenpy

the whole

the winter months,

say four at least, constant employment for

one man - -

I have already had surveyed

a

portion of the Coast line and

antiguous

land, and arranged a plan for its sale

whenever instructions

may-arrive from

home

with refe

reference

to the appropriation of

a site

for

the bantonment. I have also obtained

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copy of the Sketch plan of the Peninsula made by Lieutenant Bird late of the Royal Engineers; this for general pourpreses in ascertaining localities is admirably suited, but is quite insufficient the boundaries of properties,

fo

the determination

of

or correct measurements

of length, or surface. -

Under these circumstances Jam induced

to request that I

may

be authorised to make

arrangements with eth Bird, who is at present

unemployed, for carrying out the work as rapidly

so as to have the whole of the field.

as

posible,

work finished before the return of hot weather. the crew of the Peninsula is about 1,800 acres, on ordinary land at home (exclusive of Village Surveys li a large scale) such an area might be excecuted for 1/1?

an acre, the details

specially

not being numerous; Kowloon is s