CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4] — Page 437

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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28th April 1866.

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Edward Cardwell, M.P.

Military Cantonments.

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15th September 1853

The Commanding Royal Engineer in Chinar presents his Compliments to the respective officers and lungs to lay before them for approval, the pesult of his Conferences with His Excellency Siv George Bonhams this date with reference to thi angement of the limits of the Containment at Hong Kong, The Boundaries us laid down in His Exatloney with which the Commanding Royal Engineer fully

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Commencing at the extremes East of the Cantonment at a point maited. "A" being the junction of a small stream with the Queen's Road; the Stream forms the eastern limit

of the Cantonment to its Fource, from its source a line drawni due South until it meets the Conteur of 500 feet above the high water Marth as defined in ficut Collinson's Mah. Completes its Castion limits. The Southin limit follows the Contour of 500 feet above high water mark until it cuts the Westernmost branch of the Streams which falls into the Mullah it the Munay Banachi" from the intersection of this branch the stream becomes the

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