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expenditure by which the Treasury would think most advantageously officiate or as if the expenditure, which it may be necessary to incur for public works, & for the various contingent charges of the several departments of the public service - The simple topic on which I am about to enter is that, of the establishments to be maintained at Hong Kong, & of the Salaries to be assigned to the several members of them -
Notwithstanding the deficiency which you refer to of intelligence affecting the establishments within British colonies, the schedule which I have prepared is open to but few objections of any real weight or significance - I have, to a great extent been able to adopt your scheme as the basis of that which I have now to lay down for your guidance in the subjoined schedule.
You will find in it an enumeration of all the civil offices which it is designed for the present to maintain at Hong Kong. In explanation of those enlargements I have to make the following remarks.
The indispensable Institutions of every Colonial Government (& therefore