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pell pay, with such additional allowance as Your Excellency may proper to grant.
I am ordered in Existence prohibiting Volunteering from Regiments returning from India, but we are in a position so novel and unprecedented in this Infant Colony, that I shall not hesitate for a moment to meet Your Excellency's wishes in every thing that regards the Public Service.
I have only to request that you will be pleased to state the number
of
men
you
would wish to be retained
I have de...
(Signed) George D'Aguilar
A true Copy.
Richard Macdonald
M. General.
Duplicate..... No:43
the Koral
Colonial Department.
Government House, Hongkong
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I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter No: 4 of the 12th instant and beg to enclose a copy of minute which I laid before Council on the 24th Instant, and on which you will see that your offer of assistance towards forming a Police is thankfully accepted.
The instant the report of the
Committee which is named to consider the nature and extent of the Police to be
organized, is received by Government, you will be apprized of the number of Commissioned Officers and men that will be required.
The Honorable,
Major General D'Aguilar, C.B.