A. J. Gordon Pyre
Sir,
Land Officer &
Victoria,
Hong Kong, May, 1st 1844.
I am directed to acknowledge
No: 180
the receipt of your
letter No:28 of the 23rd of March last and to inform you that His Excellency the Governor in Council approved of the arrangements you propose and also sanctions the outlay of $170 for Surveying Instrument. You are to report immediately the Salary you propose for the Clerk of the Registry Office which is to take effect, when specially sanctioned - from
on this day,
An application will be made to the Honorable Major General,
D'Aquilar
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for the Services of Lieut. Spencer Edwards of the 98th
Regiment : to be attached to the Land Office at a temporary arrangement, but nothing can be permanently fixed until the receipt of the Instructions which have been for some time past expected from England and which expectation has led to this answer to
your
being delayed till this time.
I have ...
letter
(Signed) Richard Herman