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charge of £291. 13.10 being allowed to Sir John Bowring for the Salary of his private Secretary between the dates specified
Your letter Signed, E. Mont E. M.
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With reference to W. T. Hamilton's letter of the 19th of April last, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of Secretary Sir E. Bulwer Lytton that, after attentive consideration of the documents before them, including, besides the despatch and Enclosures from the Governor of Hong Kong inclosed in Sir E. P. Pelot's letter, Reports from the military and Commissariat Officers forwarded by the Secretary of State for War, &c. Merivale held