Forca
Office
should be engaged for the
Police Force they st
be at over discharged
from the Army; and
there discharge
dow
being sent home, the Case
would be submitted to
the Commission
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Hongkong 13 August 1844.
For Sir Henry Pottinger, Lieut. Gov.
Forwarded . AUG 19
Mundoch 10 MB Stephen
M Hope LordStanley |
of Chelsea
that
No19
Vedi Gore Off: Hv
Hospital in order
in those in which the men
have
any
Claim
to Pension, they may fix
the dates on which men
will
be entitled
to cease to be employed in the Police.
Sam,
Your most obedient servant,
K Stephen
Directed by
Lord Stanley to state
to you for the information
of the Secretary at War, that it appears from Despatches recently received from his Excellency Pottinger that arrangements
had been made
as regards nothing
between
the Superintendents and the Major
General Commanding the Force.
as to pensions for military employment of
people & that in
consequence, we must have the option
of using
the
35th Regiment as Police
in that Colony. The 55
men in the Army having the police force
on the return of the
men had been
allowed to volunteer into the 18th Lord
Stanley considers that
the Govt. of Hong Kong, of course, were informed
Sept 19