CO129-107 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [10-12] — Page 370

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Mr. Mercer.

The Rt. Stomble

Edward Cardwell, M. P.

۱۹۵۰ بهار

2 Inclosures.

Received

the Mok _Zee-

& Wo hang to plant

Squatter's License

fah

Shrub at Kowloon.

10/190.

In you

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The Petition of Lee Wong humbly sheweth.

Whereas the tea Merchants of macac

and Canton are

thong riêng

1

particularly anxious to live in

as the latter place affords a betier

market for their leas, but are unabled to do so

on account of there being-

Mo

flowers here for the

preparation of scented leas. You

You pretilimer now humbly begs Your Excetency sering that Kowloon is a large and fertile place to allot

of

hiin a piece of land at To-ha-waan about 150 mow, free of ground and house

rent

for

the

growth of flowers used in the preparation of scented teas. The ground

is

already cultivated so that there would be no-

necessity for you petitioner either to dig it

OV

build

a wall round it.

up

You petitioner