Duplicate 499.
Financial
My Lord,
At the
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Victoria, Hongkong,
29th October, 1850.
By request of Major General Staveley, the Lieutenant Governor of this Colony, I have the honor to forward to your Lordship a letter requesting that a moiety of the Passage money allowed to the Governor may be granted to him, the Lieutenant Governor to which he conceives he has a claim under Cap. II. Section III. clause 10, inserted at page 32 of the Colonial Regulations.
In my communication of the 21st August last I advised your Lordship that Major General Staveley had administered the Government of the
The Right Honorable, Earl Grey,
Your Lordship