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many mistakes.
The Officers accounted to
Love the letters on
boned might be styled
either Assistant Post Masters of
Dougtong Port Office Agents.
office agents; they should
be required to give security, and should
receive
$400 a
year each.
This expenditure would be more than
covered by the saving which might be effected in the present Establishment by the abolition of the Offices of
Assistant Post Master General and
the 2nd and 3rd Sorters which would
then no longer be required.
As the proposed scheme
combines the advantages of greater efficiency in the Post
Office department with a saving to both
the Imperial and Colonial treasuries, and as it would also be a
great boom to the Foreign mercantile
Community throughout the whole China (this being the centre from which, as it were, all the strings
are pulled) I trust it
may meet with
your Grace's
approval
and that the Post Master General and
the Lords of the Admiralty will
accord their sanction to it. From Communications which I have had on the subject with the Agent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company I am sure
that that Company