The Commissariat
to the proposal of the
at Hongkong, that Sovereigns
should be issued to public
functionaries in
payment
China in
their salaries ; and
of the
that His Lordship trusts that
a
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paught with such
injustice to the interests of
Her
May
of
Majestys
Lewants in China
not receive the sanction
the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty, Teasury.
True Copy
I am, te. (Signed) Shelburne
wher
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My
48
Superintendency of Grade
Hong Kong. 23 A17889.
elly Lord.
I have the honor to forward, for I. L. information, copy of a despatch I have addressed to the Principal Lucretary for the folonies on the subject, of the Currency:
on!
The question to again pressed on my attention by a proposal on the part of the Commissariat to issue sovereigns to the Colonial Treasurer, which I should be compelled to distribute to public functionaries at an enormous loss,
and, in
the payment
in many cases,
in Sovereigns would almost amount to a non-payment of Salary. hope stell Government will protect their servants from the heavy
sacrifices which the essive of an almost iconvertible con much entail upon them.
Ford Clarendon
I have to
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(signed) John Bowring.
Frueboy Wahn