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If my
recommendation that:
the Recorder or chief Justice of
This Colony
should also be declared
to be the Judge of the Criminal and Admiralty Court in China is approved and acted on, a portion of the Judicial Expenditure of Hongkong might perhaps to be debited to the Chief Superintendent's Department, and, indeed, considering that a considerable share of the duties of the Magistrates will spring from this Colony being the residence of the Chief Superintendent and his Establishments, it is impossible to define with precision what proportion of the charges
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should
belong
to the Consular (or
more correctly speaking, the Political), and what to the Colonial Department --
I therefore deem it advisable to likewise forward to Your Lordship
a
similar Sketch of the Establishments of the Government of Hongkong which will enable Her Majesty's Government to issue such Commands
may seem to be fitting above point.
as
I also forward abstract Statements of the charges of
different departments of both branches of the Public Service.
It is to be added that
some small portion of the charges
at