and information, to define the amount of the Credit on the Commissariat Chest it will be necessary to grant for this purpose; but in the mean time the Governor and Principal Superintendent has been enjoined to regulate all Expenditure under his authority with the strictest Economy.
Transmit Copy of the foregoing Minute to Viscount Canning, that it may be submitted, in order that it be submitted, 12.770.
with reference to his dispatch now before the Board, for the information of the Earl of Aberdeen.
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181 We have before the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury your Letter of the 21st Inst. with enclosure, relating to Drainage at Hong Kong; I have it in command to request that You state to Lord Chetwynd that My Lords do not object to the Arrangements reported by Sir Henry Pottinger for the supervision and clearance of the Public Drains in the Town of Victoria in that Colony, subject to the Revision they will doubtless undergo when the regular establishments of the Executive Police and of the Department of the Surveyor General for the Administration of Lands Roads and Public Works are formed.