service, but the full amount proposed to be spent amounts to only £683.14.2.
A Plan accompanies the Report from which with the Surveyor General's description full information will be received.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace's Most Obedient Servant,
Wm. Merivale
To the Treasury for sanction.
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REC
EI
5 JAN 1860.
130 Hong Kong
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Government Offices, Victoria
Hong Kong, 11th November, 1859.
My Lord Duke,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Grace's despatch No. 17 of the 21st August, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Board of Trade suggesting that certain arrangements should be made to ensure a more speedy settlement of all matters connected with the Estates of deceased seamen, and requesting a statement of my views with regard to their Lordships.
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
&c.
&c.