and ten cents supply paper and then examine the same.
In Office the clerks here copy very slowly, and the expenses are very great, rent, living, salary to clerks $60 per month, and the climate rather trying. I would submit therefore that 25 cents per folio for copying, and 50 cents for draughting would be a fair charge.
(Thus (copy) (Signed) G. Langler Turned 1 True Copy this July 11th 1856. Colonial Secretary.
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Hongkong 10 July 1856.
Dear Stace,
In pursuance of the Attorney General's wishes that the profession should state their views as to the Scale of Fees about to be laid down for our profession before the Ordinance be passed, I have for my own part only to express a
CR. Stace Esqe Solicitor,