this Colony and as intimated in the concluding paragraph of my letter to Captain D'Aquilar, His Excellency the Governor wishes to enrol their names on your Police list in order that they may draw the extra pay for performance of that duty; and His Excellency would further wish you to submit for the consideration of Government such proposals for their employment and distribution, and the lodging of both themselves and their families as may appear to you best calculated to provide for their efficiency and usefulness.
(Signed) Richard O. W. Homann
The Honorable
Major Caine
No:116
Victoria
Sir,
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Victoria Hongkong, March 17. 1840
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th Instant with its enclosures being correspondence between yourself and the military Mandarin at Kowloon.
A communication will be made to the Provincial Authorities at Canton regarding this correspondence, but it is needless to observe that unless the Chinese Government Officers enter cordially into our measures for suppressing crime, we have no means of obliging them to do so.
Mr. Gutzlaff will be requested to apply to you for copies of the letters which have passed between you and them and you will be so good as to let