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if any,
on the amount of subsequent Notes can be properly made available in effecting that adjustment.
But Lord Grey feels little doubt that by one as another their Lordships will agree in the suggestion offered by the Governor that, on the one hand, and on the other, the accounts of the Colony should be definitively adjusted up to some certain date. And I am further to suggest that it might obviate confusion if any unexpended surplus of the Parliamentary vote of one year were regularly carried to the account of Colonial Ways and Means for the next, and if the Estimate submitted to Parliament for the Civil Govt of Hong Kong, altogether separated from that proposed for Consular Services in China.
Not to go to the Jurors till the respecting orfactants concur.
Gour Banhan
Mr. Ellis. 2 Dec 1868
Br. Merivale
L 4
Mr. Flames
Earl Grey. 4
Sir,
You are aware that I have already received your Despatches No 6 and 17 of the 10th of April and 8th of May last, reporting upon the deficiencies which accrued in the accounts of Hong Kong some years ago and that they will form a subject of correspondence with the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury on which I shall have to address you further on the principal questions to which they...