In the meantime you will, employ such persons as may be receivable for the discharge of indispensable interim duties of your Government, apportioning to them the most moderate remunerations that may be sufficient to procure zealous and effective Service. Every person so employed must, however, be distinctly given to understand that his Appointment is provisional only, and must be held subject to H. M.’s Confirmation or Disallowance of it.
22. I have in the preceding pages attempted either to exhaust the general subject to which they refer, or to treat fully the minor topics which that general subject embraces. My object has been rather to lay the foundation for future correspondence regarding the various details of the Government of Hong Kong than to anticipate that correspondence by discussing the whole of