Steam Kiang Zreen,
97
Of Shanghai, 152 bet 182.
have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your Excellency's letter W. 2709, of the
1st instant! regarding the charges
to be remitted
from the Civil Department to the
debit of the Military chest.
I beg to inform your Excellency
that the whole of the Ten Governor
Charges
connected with ... at Hongkong, such
as Kal
are already chiefly intimated with other disbursements since they 1841, it will take
some time, and require considerable
care and trouble, & I exhort to
request therefore
I suggest
that your
Excellency should not make any communication on
your personal movements and plans
on account
of ...pend. I will be happy to transmit
Exp'y
J. Hem & Honour
letters,
Kat
Another to the Paymaster at Hongkong, who will
be able at once
to intimate ... to Government, in the form of
a statement accompanied by an Entry