My approval of this Arrangement, and
also of the rate of
Salary which you propose to fix asigned Messrs: Mayes
to these Clerks
respectively, should
be shewn that there is
nothing in your despatch
or in the enclosure to
you recommend
there whether it is your
intention that there
should be
appointments made of a permanent or a temporary nature.
2427-
Executive.
Answered. 10th April-
Sir,
3136 Hong Kong
RECEIVED
APR 8 1857
213
Government Officer Notation
Hongkong, 15 February, 1857.
my Despatch 126 of this
date. I reported leave of absence granted to Mr Mercer, whose departure will cause a vacancy in the Presidency of the Treasury Commission:
Both Mr. Mercer and Mr Reinhard had some time back
expressed a desire to be relieved from
The Right Honourable
Lord Laboucher, M.P.,
etc.
No.
etc.