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and under the expectation that his private practice in the Colony would add considerably to his emoluments, but as all Officials are precluded by orders of this Governor from engaging in any other employment than that of their public duties, it will be necessary that His Excellency shall be called upon to state the amount of remuneration which he considers necessary for the situation, and I request your Ladship will be good enough to furnish
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with this information through the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
I beg to add that under the authority conferred on me by Your Lordship's letter of the 27th Sept last, I have directed a correspondence to be opened with the East India Company's Court of Directors on the subject of the transmission of mails from Hong Kong to the Mother Country by vessels proceeding to Madras, and Calcutta. I trust some arrangement in this respect will before long be concluded.
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