Treasury, and for which I have now to request Your Lordship's approval.
The enclosed Letter of the 9th instant from the Colonial Secretary to the Chief Magistrate of Police, shows the names of the applicants and the gratuities granted to each of them, being at the rate of £10 for each adult and £5 for each child, as well as the express conditions on which they were allowed their respective gratuities.
I beg further to inform Your Lordship that there are two other men now in the Police Force having a claim on the Government for free Passages to India; and therefore, this is the last application of the kind that will be made.
I have the honour to be, With the highest respect, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,
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Mr Mic
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To Earl Grey.
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I am directed by Earl Grey to transmit to you for the information of the Secretary at War the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, dated the 10th instant, with one enclosure, reporting the grant of free passage to six men, accompanied by their families, lately serving in the Police Force in the Colony, into which they had volunteered.