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18. The Commission, after an examination of the three Chinese clerks in the Surveyor General's Office, is inclined to acquit them of any complicity in this breach of official trust, which has evidently been committed by some person in the Department either of the Surveyor General or Colonial Secretary who is well acquainted with the current correspondence. The Commission is of opinion that this improper use of an official document must have been induced by corrupt influence.
Hongkong, March 10th, 1884.
EDWARD L. O'MALLEY.
ALFRED LISTER.
F. BULKELEY JOHNSON.