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the additions which I expect to have to make to them in furtherance of the, which I foresee will be required to carry out the provisions of the Treaty, and I trust that you will believe me when I say that nothing but a conviction of the absolute necessity of the course I intend to pursue being essential to the momentous Public interests with which I am charged, should have induced me to offer the smallest objection to the arrangement which your letter indicates.
Agred) Henry Pottinger
Sen
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Head Quarter Ship • March
Chusan Harbour, 26th Feb.
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 24th instant, W. 178, and quite coincide with G: E: in the expediency of maintaining the appointment of Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate at Chusan, and I shall direct that the Salary of Mr: Skead continue to be paid until the pleasure of the Governor General be known or further instructions received from Lord Stanley.
I also quite agree with G: E: that it would, under present circumstances, create serious public inconvenience to alter the existing Govt of Hongkong by transfer of the Island to Military Authority.
For Henry Pottinger B. G. M.