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I have heard the hour to receive your Excellency's letter of the 5th inst., communicating the instructions for which I have received from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, to institute a strict search into the Expenditure of the Colony of Hong Kong, Civil, Naval, & Military, and requesting my assistance therein, which I have happy to afford you to the utmost of my humble Abilities will permit.
I will reply to the questions of your Excellency in the order in which they have been put.
I have called for a return of the the amount annual Expense of the Establishment of the Naval Storekeeper and Agent Victualler which is herewith transmitted for your Excellency's information. I must however be permitted to remark that the Expense of this Establishment which is already as low as possible refers not merely to the Colony of Hong Kong, but is incurred for the general requirements.
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Excellency J. P. Bonham
Governor &c &c Hong Kong