Alexander Anderson Esq.
Colonial Surgeon P.
Victoria, Hongkong, January 24, 1844.
2nd
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th Ultimo, with an Indent and Bill for Medicines. The Indent will be referred to the proper Department to ascertain if it can be complied with from the Military Medical Stores; and in the meantime you may buy any Medicines that may be immediately required.
The arrangement you propose for the custody of the Medicine is approved, and an allowance of $20 per mensem is sanctioned as a temporary arrangement from the 1st of this month.
The Bill for Medicines already supplied to the Public servants by the Hongkong Dispensary is sanctioned, and herewith returned. It will be paid by the Treasurer to Government on being duly receipted, and countersigned by you as to its correctness.
I have etc.,
(Signed) Richard Hannah.
To The Officiating Assistant Adjutant General
Victoria, Hongkong. January 25 1844.
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to beg, that you will submit the enclosed Original Indent for Medicines, required by the Civil Department, to Colonel
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