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You are informed that Mr. Stewart - the Treasurer and Financial Secretary - has been authorized to pay the Managing Committee of the Institution the sum of Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1200), being the amount of allowance formerly assigned to the Anglo Chinese College, at Malacca.
I have to,
(Signed) Richard Wosnian
Memorandum accounting most satisfactorily for the coals referred to therein.
I understand that not long ago, coals were selling here at less than $2 and $3 per ton, and it also appeared to me very unlikely that, had those seen at Kowloon been purloined or stolen, the persons having them in their possession would have so publicly exposed them.
I have to,
(Signed) Henry Pottinger.
Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane C.B.
Victoria, Hong Kong, December 23rd 1843.
No: 134
No: 140
Farquhar Macqueen Esq.,
Victoria,
Hong Kong,
23rd December, 1843.
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th Instant, with its accompaniments, and to enclose a copy of your letter of this date regarding the complaints.