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your
Careful
Consideration, and
will take the best steps in
Carrying
my power to assist you
into execution
in
whatever decision
I arrive at. I hope also
and that it might be advisable to send out from this country
a clerk of
the works
or overseer familiar with
the works of the same
description
I therefore desire
that the practical suggestions
of the Colonial Surgeon
will in the meantime have
received the attention of the
local Government.
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Sir,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Victoria Hongkong,
5th June, 1855:
I have the honor to
forward the Blue Book Hongkong for the past year 1854, and take the opportunity to note the great advance recently made by this Colony.
2.
The Revenue for the year
has amounted to £27,045, 3.5%,
The Honorable
Lieut. Colonel Caine
Lieutenant Governor