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This regulation is of peculiar urgency.
5. With regard to your application for the payment to yourself of a salary of $4,500, I have to state that it is felt great difficulty in acceding to it when remembering the circumstances of the case.
The Bankes Neville had wished, as it appears, to disconnect the office of Governor of Hong Kong from that of Superintendent of Trade, Home Department, and had proposed to do so, but was only prevented from doing so by the resistance of certain Statutory provisions requiring their union for some purposes. But he proposed that the same object should be attained, as far as might be, by leaving to yourself as Governor only the direction of matters connected with the China trade, and placing the internal affairs of the Island under a Lieutenant...