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Hon. Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart.
Treasury to direct Pay- ment of the Annuity.
8° & 9° VICTORIE, Cap. 49.
shall be deemed to have commenced and taken effect upon the Nineteenth Day of October in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and the first Payment of the Arrears thereof, together with the Quarter ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, shall be made on the Fifth Day of July in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and shall thereafter be paid quarterly; (that is to say,) on the Tenth Day of October, the Fifth Day of January, the Fifth Day of April, and the Fifth Day of July in every Year; and the said Annuity shall issue and be payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (after paying or reserving sufficient to pay all such Sums of Money as have been directed to be paid out of the same by any former Act of Parliament, but with Preference to all other Payments which shall hereafter be charged upon the said Fund); and the Acquittance or Receipt of the said Sir Henry Pottinger, or of such other Person or Persons as shall be duly authorized and appointed by him to receive such Annuity or any Part thereof, shall be a good and sufficient Discharge for the Payment thereof; and the said Annuity shall be free and clear from all Taxes, Rates, and Assessments, except Income or Property Tax, and all other Charges whatsoever.
II. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, by Warrant under their Hands, shall direct the Payment of the said Annuity according to the Provision herein-before contained.
LONDON: Printed by GEORGE E. EYRE and ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1845.
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My Lord,
Government House Victoria
Hong Kong. 22nd January 1844.
I had on the 20th Instant, the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch No. 15 of the 8th of October.
Admitting to the purport of Your Lordship's observations in that despatch I feel it to be due to myself to respectfully point out to Your Lordship that the Islands of Lusan and Morlangsee have been since the year, and are still, looked upon as mere Military Posts,
that therefore strictly speaking nothing to say to additional Commissarial accommodation being provided at Lusan but that I having asked my advice and Sanction and having likewise stated that the
The Right Honorable
Lord Stanley,
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