Ningpo, November 27th, 1865.
W. H, Fittock, Esq, LI. B. M. Consul, Ningpo.
'Sin,—In compliance with your Notification o laid renters, dated 26th' October, 18655 1 Deg to hand you annexed particulars of the Laud belonging to the Estate of the late Dr. William Parker. I also send plans show the boundaries of each First Lot, see Plan Ne. 1.
{Refers to property outside the Salt Gute.]
Second Lot, see Phin No. 2.
Ts on the Great Northern Mead (on thab portion of the New Rout extending across the Settlement from near the English Cemetery to the *Tsie-kie" brunch of the River).
This land was transferred on the 7th ember, 1862, from Mordecai Simeon Gubbay, Merchant, Ningo, and Mr. Kdward Swain, of Her Majesty's Naty, to the late Dr. William Darker; anid consists of two plots of ground hotght in conjunction, measuring eley thereabouts, and bounded as follow:
Five mow and a half or thereabouts a to the Hers Wert South, by paddy ti
3 Kast by the property belo Mr, Teac Reuben, Another five mow and a half bounded as follows ast, facing the old Chinhai stone path-UCanitl: North, facing to the Great auth, by pauldy rs: West, by the. pray Reuben of Ningpo. endered (o public use can be on plan No. 2 which ig a copy of the inal plan of the Great Northern Roa, Third Lot see plan N Ison the Great Western Road (on that part of the New Road extending from the Great Northern Roud to the Tsie-kie" river near the Catholic Cemetery This lot was bought in 1862 as per original Title Deeds deposited in H. B. M. Consulate il (ransferved tothe late Dr. Willi arker theowgh the Committee mai construction of the Road. It consists of ten mow of land or thereabouts, and is mark the original plan as Lot No. 5 and is bounded as follows The por de of the Roa, orth, by South, by the Great tein Road West, by No. 4, the property Swain; East, by the pathway and lot 'o. 6 the property of J.C. Jackson; and portion on the South side of the Road is ho united: North, by the Roads South, by West sao East The land for ting the Road surrendered to Public use. (see Plan No. 3.) have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient serv (Signed.) abier Pa I certify that the written doer ig a true copy of the of Mrs. Alison Napier Ds 1865, and addressed iitock, the description of the If, B. M. Consulate, 1gpo, Jan. 27, 1902. when it you will see, be is of the impression that he parted with all Mrs. Parker's ground one time another. But he adds, have signed a Chinese deed to a purchaser and—[Lu] ought to have in his Possession such a document.
If, then, the Chinese deed which Lu tells me hie handed to the Mission is signed by albin, I shall be prepared, on its ex-nto' me, to admit the right of the 1 to the round defined (as Lot in Mrs. Parker's formal letter to my pre Accessor, dated Nov. 27, 1865, and to insert a wote to that effect in my Land Register. Tt must, however, he distinctly understood that all the land declared by Mrs. Parl ce been "surrendered to public use wil must continue to remain, a pub-lie road.
Ir aint you, by the bye, that you have hot yet returned my Memorandum? Yours sincerely, Wilkinson, W. H. Wilkinson, Esy., IL. 1. M. Const,
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