should be instructed to confine the Expenditure for Public Works within the limit of the balances Available from time to time for that service -
Jam, Pri
Your obedient servant
Les Alamillere
that this large amount has been retained
held back by the Governor from prominent
Notice. Otherwise we
have consented
scarcely could £10,
£10,000 out of the funds of their Country for their public works.
to give
"ABPM/3.
12
As to the points on which the Treasury ask for information, & I have told them the facts referred to in Mr. Blackwood's marginal notes, doing so without comment. I shall promise to instruct the Governor as the correspondence desired and then should send him copy of
instructing
him in the text that
he must confine
expenditure for public work (concluding lines of
Treasury).
TR 14 March
agreed
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Khong Trong
G. A Hamilton legs 29 March /59
TE
Jun ing
Znale 24
for regia luce
Law directed
Secretary E.B.
Lytton to acknowledge
the receipt of your
letter of the 11th inst
and to submit for
the information of
the Lords Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Treasury
the following remarks
on the items
of expenditure incurred at Hong Kong noticed by their Lordships
The annual
Expenditure