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3 items (formerly enclosed in despatch number 24059A, November 1891) extracted from...
Catalogue reference: MPGG 1/120
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This record is about the 3 items (formerly enclosed in despatch number 24059A, November 1891) extracted from... dating from 1891 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1891
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3 items (formerly enclosed in despatch number 24059A, November 1891) extracted from CO 129/251 (folios 479-481). Hong Kong. 3 plans of part of the Cantonment, showing land ownership and property to be acquired by the War Department, the Admiralty and the Colonial Government: (1) Plan Q, (2) Plan A, (3) Plan B. Reference tables. Scale: 1 inch to 160 feet. Items 2-3 signed: Leong Kee Chak, (2) 1 November 1891; (3) 6 November 1891. Dimensions: (1) 33.5 cm x 51 cm; (2) 38 cm x 58.5 cm; (3) 60.5 cm x 98.5 cm. Originally accompanying a letter from Colonel A Stoner, Commanding Royal Engineers, Hong Kong, 7 November.
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- English
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- 1:1920
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- Open Document, Open Description
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