I have the honor to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a letter from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamer to Ceylon in 1855.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Sir, Your most Obedient Humble Servant,
Maine
Mr. Merivale
Request the Govt to pay this money
to the Paymaster,
he receives
Naval Services, when it relating to
Officially by
the debt incurred on account
of the late M. Morgan's debt
then
Liquidated.
Anne
19 Aug
117
8200
119
8. Barnard Sep.
the Merch
19 Aug
Mr. Merivale 20 Aug and
Duke of Newcastle 21.
W. M.
To follow
25 August /59
I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to inform you
that
a Despatch has been
received from the Governor
of Hongkong stating that
a sum of $2000
is about to be remitted
to you
on account of
that Colony, and I
have to instruct you
to pay from this fund
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to the Paymaster
of
Naval Services the sum
of £2800 due on
account of the late
S.S. Mauritius passage by the P.& O. Steamer
to Ceylon in 1853