"Registrar General's Office in May last - beyond the payment of $600 deducted by instalments from his Salary.
[ Nos 1 and 2 in Appendix ]
Resolved, that the matter be re-considered at the close of the Inquiry now pending before the Council, and that in the meanwhile Mr Caldwell be allowed to draw half Salary."
(True Extract)
Lithuade & Castro
Clerk of Councils.
(Copy) W1116.
Sir,
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No 1
30
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,
17th December, 1860.
In my letter W:531 of 14 June last you were informed that His Excellency The Governor gave you six months to make good deficiency in public monies that had taken place in your Department.
As the time is expired and it is reported that there is further deficiency,
D. R. Caldwell, Esq.,
Registrar General.