maintenance of 5 Military
Convicts / 3 marines and
2 Soldiers) sent to Hongkong
by the Marchioness of Louisa Terry
on the previous
This despatch was
acknowledged by Sir B. C.
Lewis
on the 4th August
1860, (168), who stated that
the Admiralty had allowed
the sum claimed
for the
account
of
the 3 Marines;
viz: £73.8.0, – and this has
since been received
by
the
Agent General in his account for the
quarter ending 30th September
1860.
But with regard to
the claim for the
maintenance of the two
Soldiers, viz:
£46.7.11d, the
Secretary of State observed
that the cost in excess of
£16.7.11d allowed by the Military
Act, should be borne by the Colony. Accordingly, the amount to be recovered from the War Office became