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(copy) Colonial Secretary's Office,
Victoria, Hong Kong,
21st May 1866
Sam directed, in reply to your letter of yesterday, to state that the proposal to discontinue all salutes is altogether inadmissible.
Murray Battery (Although like the Wellington, never on Murray Island must of course be the diluting Battery until other arrangements be made, and such arrangements it is His Excellency's desire that Lieut. Colonel Dunlop take into immediate consideration).
His Excellency would have much
The Major.