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SMA.
A. 61 of 1848..
Palosure to 2 in Sept:
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Sir,
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Victoria, Hongkong, 11th August
8, 1848.
The Major General commanding has informed me that the lamentable mortality among the troops at present existing in the Septes, renders it imperatively necessary that the Guards should be reduced, in order to meet the exigency as he has not available men to supply the deficiency. I have therefore requested the Major General to remove altogether the Royal Guards, the Treasury Guard, and the Police Guard, the two latter of which I propose to replace by a Civil Police.
To His Excellency,
Commodore Collinson, C.B.,
Commanding in chief.
was the present increase of the Police force, consequent on the withdrawal of the Military Guards from the Civil Departments, amounting to £51.5.0 per mensem.
Report by the Superintendent of Police, forwarded through the Chief Magistrate, stating
24th August, 1848.