request.
I will probably see you before you go to Mr. Purvey about it, and give you verbally any other particulars that I recall to my memory.
10/6/66.
(Signed) Mouse Dick.
True Copy
Colonial Secretary.
Copy Nesøy.
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Colonial Secretary's office,
Victoria, Hongkong,
11th May 1858.
Sir,
It has been this day reported to His Excellency The Governor that you, in your capacity of Sheriff, did on a recent occasion demand from one or more of certain Prisoners in Gaol a stated sum as victual money.
His Excellency thinks it due to you to bring this grave charge at once to your notice, and trusts that your acknowledgement of this communication will also convey a complete and sufficient denial of the accusation preferred.
I have...
W. H. Mitchell Beg