Completion of the work specified and I am to add, in explanation of the circumstance of your letter remaining so long unanswered that it was inadvertently mislaid.
I have been
(Signed) Richard Hormanns
No:19h
A. J. Gordon Hope
Land Officer to
Sir,
Victoria,
Hongkong, 4th May, 1846.
In reply to your application of this date, I am directed to convey to you the sanction of His Excellency the Governor in Council to a leave of absence on sick certificate, for fourteen days, commencing on the 8th instant.
I have to,
(Signed) Richard Wotram
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