Board
of
Trade
ELE
Freiga
fice
My Lords, adverting to the completion of most of the Works of importance for the execution of which it had been requisite for the Civil Government to provide, and to the sufficiency of the Surveyor General's Department for the Supervision of them, I would suggest that the further employment of the Officers of Royal Engineers in this Branch of the Colonial Service may be dispensed with proposed by Sir J. Davis.
...
obedient servant,
your
humble servant,
In Merivale.
at date
complying with the receipt section to the Governor
July 26th
4786-27
July 27th 1848
1640
Trustees' Cheque No.
26th July 1848.
With reference
to
179
Letter
of the 6th Ultimo I have it in command to acquaint You, for the information of Earl Grey, that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have been pleased to authorize the admission of the Expenditure for the proposed Works at Hong Kong referred to in the Despatch from Governor Sir J. Davis dated the 13th March last. (No=39)
Vide No. 45
...
your obedient servant,
L
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