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here until the
monthly (one month with another) are dispatched or received.
To provide for the regular conduct and dispatch
so much business
of 10
very efficient
and extensive establishments will be
obviously required, and the
system
only be perfected and brought into effect by very gradual steps.
I have drafted a Notification providing for
the transmission of all private letters to Fushan, and the Consular Ports,
as well as
for the
recovery of any English or Indian
Portage that
may
be leviable
on them.
Even this duty is almost more than can be fairly added to those which Mr. M'head and the Consuls have already to perform, but as some such arrangement must be made to obviate private letters continuing
to lie in the Post-office,
Postage on them shall be forthcoming
I am most anxious to consult the feelings and wishes of individuals by this arrangement. I propose
I intend to send a copy of Memorandum to Her Majesty's
Government by the first opportunity and
should Mr Scales have
any remarks to offer upon it previous to transmission, I request he will favor me with them at his early convenience.
(Signed) Henry Pottinger
Government House, Victoria, (Hongkong) April 16th, 1844.
(True Copy)
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