The probability of luck Claim being established may be inconsiderable, and the custody of, and the responsibility for such funds may be unobjectionable on the part of their custodians.

If the trouble and responsibility attending the rendering of their services is not objectionable to them, there appears little objectionable in the policy (without expressing any opinion on what is a matter of legislation rather than of law) in the Ordinance proposed for confirmation.

Her Majesty

Woven Greenwood

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Treasury Chambers

RECEIVED

JULY 30 1856

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your

14. September last, reporting the payment into the Commissariat Chest at Hong Kong of the sum of twelve hundred and eight Pounds nineteen shillings, being the unclaimed Balances of Persons who had died intestate before 1st July 1849.

I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of my Secretary Sir John Bowring, that their Lordships have received a letter from the Officer in charge Elliot, R.N.

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