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that the duties of the Treasurer were to be purely Colonial, but, on the contrary, it seems to have been, from the first, arranged that the sums for haying the Conventar Agencies and lotablishments in China
his should be issued though
Departement,
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the authority
the Governor and superintendent,
It does not, therefore, appear
to My Lords that the Treasmer
peitian danne on
has any thus pound
moreover, no
and it will, doubt be in I.
Labouchere's recollection that the Mcommendation for the increase
of.
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of
the Salary of this Office from £600. to £000, submitted in Your letter of 20th February 1857, and sauctioned by the Decasury
letter of 2
nd March, was in
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a peat measure
He John Bowring
based by
the fact
that the Treasurer had to
discharge
cortam duties for
the Consular departiment, and that his responsibility was increased thereby.
My lords would not, therefore, feel disposed to fine then saccition to the further addition of £200 now submitted by the J. Bowring.
inless, in the opinion of M. Labouchere, there are any
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