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for their washing and body servants.
In all houses they are lodged and fed.
In the third and fourth firms the clerks mess with the partners, and except that they do not invite their friends to the table are on the same footing there.
In the first and second firms the clerks mess apart. An allowance is made to each of some £10 for mess-money,
No. 19
Miscellaneous.
G.P.O.
My Lord,
MAY 27 1850
Victoria, Hongkong, 21st March, 1850.
I have the honor to enclose for Your Lordship's information, copy of a correspondence arising out of a claim made by Mr Hyland, the Deputy Post Master General, for remuneration for certain articles of property destroyed by the falling in of a ceiling of a room in the Post Office, on the 16th September last year.
A well-furnished room with all appliances, is provided for them, as well as separate dormitories, with lights, fires and common furniture. (True Extract)
Colonial Secretary's Office,
The Building at present occupied by the Post Office was built by Government for the Office of the Registrar General, and handed over to Mr. Hyland in January 1846, as is shown by letter from the Surveyor General
The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,