CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10] — Page 361

Inclosure

No 232 of 1873,

No 5 in Ils:

Entered

232

1946. Trong Mong

357

of the proposed city

Plan showing site

Hall.

Downing Street

29 Feb. 1873

With reference from

Ellin of the 8th Feb 1873

to transmit four

For the Office of

the Governor of Hong Kong

applying for authority

to sanction

the erection

of a Public Hall

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