For
Estimate to be submitted specifically for that purpose to Parliament, for the date at which the Island was formally ceded to the Magistracy by the Emperor of China; but, on
a
full consideration of the
Subject, it appears to my Lords that,
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the sums expended in the Civil Department at Hongkong previously to the 1st September 1843 were either advanced by the East India Company, and accounted for to them in the Annual Grant of Parliament for the Expenses of the China Expedition,
paid
out of the sum of six Millions of Dollars received for the Ransom of Canton, the Cast - Mentioned
date (viz the 1st
September 1843)
ought to be fixed-
That
from
1st
which the Civil Expenditure of the Island should be provided for
in the usual manner
by Votes
of Parliament founded on detailed Statements
Estimates
Their Lordships accordingly request that Lord Stanley will,
in modification of the previous instructions which have been issued to Sir Henry Pottinger
on this subject, direct a detailed Statement to be prepared of the Sums which were expended for the Service of the Civil Government
of Hongkong from the 1st Sept. 1843 to the 31st March 1844, whether
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