N117
C
Sir,
17
Land Office, Victoria
Hongkong, 9th August 1844
In reply to your letter marked C I have to inform you that I shall for the future be guided by the Instructions it contains, but that the work which this involves as well as the necessary duties connected with a proper rendering of my accounts will compel me to apply to His Excellency the Governor for a clerk to be employed as Accountant in this Department.
I have to
(Signed) Shd Geo. Fleverly
Acting Surveyor General.
A. R. Shelley, Esqre Auditor General.
(True Copy)
Frederich Mr.A. Bonce