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Foreign Office
January 19th 1860.
I am directed by Lord John Russell to acknowledge receipt of your Letter of the 3rd Inst., reporting arrangements regarding the salary of the Attorney General of Hong Kong which have been sanctioned by the Board of Treasury and with reference to the last paragraph of your letter, I am to state to you that his Lordship is of opinion that Her Majesty's Government should continue ... Laing Esq.
J.