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Fine last, but cannot find that he took any notice of that Letter have to instruct you that Mr. Exain's debt to the public is to be stopped out of the next two quarters payment of salary falling due to him in the Colony after the receipt of this despatch. £60 is to be stopped out of the first quarter's payment, and £30 out of the next, and these sums are to be paid into the Treasury Chest, in order to enable me to discharge the claim of the Royal Department.
You will have the goodness to acknowledge the receipt of these instructions which are on no Account to be departed from, and to report to me each successive payment unto the Treasury Chest in conformity with the present directions.
Officers at Hong Kong cannot be permitted to take upon themselves passages private affairs at the public expense.