Enclosure No. 1.
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To the Right Hon. W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, P.C.M.P.
His Majesty's Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
The Humble Petition of RONALD HALL, BISHOP OF
VICTORIA in the Colony of Hongkong SHEWETH
as follows :-
1.
In the year 1849 a piece of land at Victoria in the Colony
of Hongkong now registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot
No. 76 was conveyed by the Reverend Vincent John Stanton to
the Right Reverend George Lord Bishop of Victoria, under Letters
Patent dated the 11th day of May 1849, and his successors,
to
the intent that it and all the buildings erected the reon should
be held and employed for the purpose of a missionary institution
in Hongkong to be called the St. Paul's College and to be
regulated by the statutes which had previously been agreed
upon and were set out in the conveyance.
2. The Statutes provided that the college was primarily
founded for the object of training a body of native clergy and
Christian teachers for the propagation of the gospel in China,
under the immediate control of the Bishop of the Diocese, who
was to be ex officio warden but that it should be lawful to
permit European as well as native students.
3. The opening recital in this document stated that the land
in question had been granted by Her Majesty Queen Victoria to
the said Reverend Vincent John Stanton for the purpose of
assisting the building and endowing of a school and otherwise
forwarding missionary objects in China. A copy of this convey-
ance is annexed, the original having been deposited in the
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