and
that you will submit to Sir R. B. Lytton the Expediency of transmitting the usual Statement of his services, as well as of the grounds for which it is proposed to grant him a Pension.
Jam, lii
your despatch servant See Allamellin
Merivale
Lord Canning is disposed to agree to the whole, on fixing the Salary of Her Majesty's Governor of H.Kong
£3000 per annum.
The despatch to Governor Robinson
The scheme has expressed,
I presume,
Having proceeded
I trust
That
the
Chb
:M
Lord Canning does not intend to refer to a pension. We can call on him for a statement of his services,
to be submitted to the Treasury,
in the
but as for the
ordinary way: grounds on which a pension is proposed to be granted to him, they can, I apprehend, only explain
that the inducement
is
accorded
on
the score of
abolition of office,
Accompanied by fin Metal Secince
al-H.
Kong
since 1841.
on
Att. 16 Mont.
The salary is ultimately fixed
by Sir R. Lytton himself at £2500.
will he adhere simply to
the figures
amended in the correspondence
as G. Caine, hand as suggested?
and I think it may
has all been
her former Award for him leave of
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