or a
deserving of the Office of Preasurer, I would recommend his being confirmed, reduction of Mr. Martin's salary of £ 1200 to the rate of £900 or £1000 per
I have the honor to be,
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With the highest respect,
Your Most Obedient, Humble Servant,
to wait
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23 May
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Victoria, Hongkong,
85th March, 1846.
With reference to your Despatch N. 10 of January 234. Phave the honor to state that all the Public Departments of this Colony have been fully alive to the necessity of adhering strictly to the terms of Her Majesty's Roclarnation in respect to the valuation of the different descriptions of Coin in circulation.
The statement of the Staff Officer
of the Madras Freeps
seems to have been
founded in a misapprehension. If the Chinese in the Bazaar sometimes took the Shilling as half a Rupee (though they were bound to receive it as a legal tender
The Right Honorable,
W. E. Gladstone, M. PP
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