for
either
navigation Company no provision is made for the passage of officers' families to and from China, as is done Military Stations. Under these circumstances I beg to know if your
Lordship
can
permit
by the clause inserted at
to benefit
page 32 of
the Colonial Regulations in which it is stated that whenever a Lieutenant Governor is appointed to a Colony in
which a Superior Governor is resident
and exercising all the functions of
his
office, he will be entitled to receive a moiety of the passage
Allowance
assigned by the Regulations to the
Governor under whom he is about
to serve.
I beg
by the temporary
leave to add that during
absence of His Excellency
the Governor in visiting the Northern Ports I have exercised the functions
of Governor, and that for the expense of my voyage out here I received no passage allowance from the Colonial Government, although by the Regulation above quoted " I conceive I have, &c.,
I am entitled to it.
(Signed) W. Staveley,
Major General
(True Copy)
Comg. the Troops and Lieut. Governor.