Par: Their Lordships letter suggesting that certain arrangements should be adopted to ensure a more speedy settlement of such cases in future, and I shall be glad to receive from you a statement of your views with regard to their Lordships expectations.
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Sir,
Harbor Master's office, 28th April, 1859.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No 315 of the 26th Instant enclosing a despatch from the Secretary of State relative to the Estates of two deceased seamen named Hoope and Upton, and in reply beg to state that the accounts and effects were not handed over to this Department by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam Ships "Chusan" and "Rajah" until the end of September 1838. The Government
The Honorable M. E. Mercer Esquire, Colonial Secretary.
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