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of paying public salaries, & to general system of Currency in Hong Kong, I am in want of further information.
A gentleman has sent a copy of a letter recently addressed to this department by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury on those subjects.
2. Mr. S. Ballucin reported in the first part of the despatches exchanged that he had given directions that the notes of the Mercantile Bank should be taken at the Colonial Treasury till orders from home should be received;
I am not aware that such despatch XCR(85)72...