To instruct you to give directions to the Colonial Secretary to make the necessary issues for this Service in the manner indicated in the Despatches to Mr. Bruce.
Copy 19 In 2502/59 •163 Foreign Office March 5, 1857.
The transfer of the Seat of the Superintendency, from Hongkong to Shanghai will under necessity involve some modification in the existing arrangements for providing funds for the salaries & contingent Expenses of the different Consulates: Up to the present time those funds have been issued by the Commissariat Department to the Colonial Treasurer under warrant from the Chief Superintendent, & the Colonial Treasurer has thereupon remitted the same to F. Bruce, C.B.