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In 5303/53
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Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, the 21th March, 1853.
I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 18th March, instant,
- one to remit to the Paymaeter
No. 62, requesting
General for Naval Services the sum
of £.104,0
on
account of the passage from this place provided.
for me
between the 23rd.
2373 July
and the 22nd
September last.
Co
I should immediately comply with
your request. but that I believe it has been__ overlooked in calculating the sum due that the fare for ordinary passengers in the mouth of July
last. when the passage
so
that the contract;
in
was ordered, was £.130;
+ fare, (if I understood it
was £86.13.4
aright to be two-thirds of the former), The enclosed letter from the Superintendent of
The Honorable
Lt. Coll. W. Laine,
Colonial Secretary