Twenty Dollars each per month for the two European Overseers of Police is sanctioned and also that of Six Dollars per month for each of the Chinese Scavengers.
Captain Haly of the 4th Madras Native Infantry has been, with the concurrence of the Honorable Major General D'Aguilar, selected to be Superintendent of Police and will be further nominated to be one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in this Colony and in the Dominions of the Emperor of China.
A salary of ($100) One Hundred Dollars per month will be received by Captain Haly in addition to his military Pay and allowances, and the house you have been offered at No: 75 is to be engaged for his residence and that of the Establishment under him at Thirty Dollars per mensem.
You will include the expense of the Superintendent and his Establishment in a separate monthly abstract. Government will await your further report as to the Extra Establishment before issuing further instructions.
(Signed) Richard Hormby
Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.
R. Edwards Esqre
Victoria
Hongkong. February, 20-1844.
Gentlemen,
With...