at that time he responsible for.
You will observe that the wakened schedule contains no provision for the Port or the Post Office, nor for the Office is done already detachment of Customs The explanation is that these detachments of the public service, triumphant in the British Colonies, are under the control of the Lords of the Treasury, who will, in due time, make the necessary arrangements on the subject. In the interval you may make such provisional appointments as may seem to you indispensable for the right conduct of these affairs, assigning to the persons to be employed such moderate remuneration as the case may seem to you to require.
On the subject of the Customs I find myself, as I have already prepared to adopt, or to decide upon any definite course of proceeding. How to reconcile that free access of the shipping & trade of all nations to Hong Kong.