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it is, that I am held responsible for his special Department and therefore humbly beg to be excused responding to your call for monies due from him to the Treasury. I trust that His Excellency the Governor may be pleased to listen to any appeal and afford me an opportunity of vindicating my character.
$1,000.
(Copy) No 271
Sir,
No 8.
Colonial Secretary's office,
Victoria, Hong Kong,
30th March, 1860.
316
I have received instructions from His Excellency The Governor to inform you that I shall be ready and most happy to undergo any further interrogation on this unfortunate subject at any time when called upon.
(Signed) Henry Gunthorpe.
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary
You are at once interdicted from the exercise of your functions as a provisional measure. You will in due course be supplied with charges against you, and will have an opportunity of defending yourself before the Executive Council, of which timely notice will be given you.
I have &c.
(Signed) W. S. Mercer,
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary
6. Gunthorpe to Colonial Secretary