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be sent (with a Memorandum of the Lostage, if any-chargeable on them) to the Consul who will be requested to allow one of his Establishment to deliver them on application (and payment of the Postage). The Consul will in like manner be requested to keep a Box open and to order letters to be received for transmission to Hongkong, as laid
of the Assistant Deputy Post Master at Chusan.
down in the case
Sletters that
addressed to any
Corre
may other place in China than Macao, the Five Consular Ports and Chusan, will be kept at the Post Office at Victoria, till applied for and the Postage (if any) paid upon them
By Order,
(Signed) Richard Homam.
Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th April 1844.
No:160
The Honorable,
Sir
Major Caine,
Chief Magistrate.
Victoria,
Hongkong, April 17 1844.
I am directed by the Governor in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No: 92 of the 9th Instant, with Report enclosed pour the Assistant Magistrate in the Chinese Department regarding the Salt Weighman trong Mei.
I am in reply to inform you
that His Excellency in Council cannot consider that Report to be either satisfactory or at all to the purpose.
The
anaw
Toong Afei
was never
charged
with being a party to the Robbery though there is strong reason to suspect him
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