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the Chinese Secretary, I include the Assistant Chinese Secretary, the Student Interpreters & the Chinese Linguists employed in the Mission. The Chinese Secretary will obtain money for these services from the Commissariat upon warrant from the Colonial Auditor, & will render accounts to the Colonial Auditor in the same manner as the Consuls.
The Commissariat will also upon warrant from the Colonial Auditor provide for the payment to the Attorney General, the Surveyor General, and the Colonial Auditor & Assistant of the allowances which they have hitherto received for their services
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in connection with this office, and which services they will still render notwithstanding the removal of the Superintendency.
But although this arrangement will relieve you from any concern in the disbursement of money or in accounting for the same, in regard to the Consular service in China, it is not my intention to place in your hands the power to sanction extraordinary expenditure.
All such sanction must come from me as Chief Superintendent.
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