15169.
Admiralty Office
Home Office
i.
Mr. Merivale
Colonial Office
Governor of Hong Kong,
to be founded in the present
reference to Lord Gray's despatch this day sent to the Governor of Canton with the like
Despatch.
DB.16749.
L 13/1.
6223.
124
JULY 17 1849
Treasury Chambers
16th July 1849.
Sir,
With reference to the Letter of this Board
of the 22nd February last, I am
directed
by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you,
for the information of Earl Grey, that My Lords have directed Mr. Baillie, Audit General for Hong Kong,
to pay to Mrs. Sneither
the
Pension of Twenty
Pounds
a year granted to her Widow
of the
late Thomas Chalmers, Inspector of
Police at
Hong Kong,
commencing from the 31st of August last the date of her Husband's decease, in order that the Governor of Hong Kong
may
be apprized thereof,
I have the honour to be
Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
[Signature]
Herbert Merivale
&c.
&c.