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26.1844.
Mr Davis.
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'I am
Foreign Office Feb. 13. 1844
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am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to acquaint you that His Lordship has been in communication with Lord Stanley on the
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subject of your application of the 26th of Jan that you may receive this granted to For Her from
Zoroo a year shall commence
you may
• you may receive this
same allowances on proceeding to China as were granted to Pottinger, such that your salary of £6000 a year;
the day of your departure from this Country, that you have £3000 by way of Outfit, and that you may charge any expense of transport by land & sea which you may incur.
I am to state to you in the first place, that your Salary of £6000 a year will be borne upon the Estimates of the Colonial Office, and will be issued to you by that Department; you should therefore address yourself to Lord Stanley respecting the time at which its issue shall commence.
As regards the question of outfit, Lord Aberdeen has been informed by Lord Stanley that it is inconsistent with the practice of the Colonial Office to grant outfits to Governors. But as Lord Aberdeen considers that the amount of Salary which has been assigned to you, has been fixed with reference to the several offices united in Your Person, His Lordship is willing that the moiety of it should be deemed to be paid to you in your character of Superintendent, being the same sum which was assigned in 1836 to the Office of Chief Superintendent, and that, in conformity with the principle observed in this Office with respect to Outfits granted to the Diplomatic Servants of the Crown, one-third of that moiety should be granted to you by way of Outfit.
J. F. Davis Esq.