Several accounts have been received from you, except the six instalments of one Hundred Dollars a month ordered to be deducted by you from your salary, I am directed to call on you for explanations and to state that the Colonial Treasurer has been directed to make No further payments of salary till further orders.
I have done so.
(Signed) W. T. Mercer, Colonial Secretary
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary.
(Copy)
No. 2.
Registrar General's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,
Sir,
21st December, 1860.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt yesterday morning on my return from Cupchi, of your letter calling on me for explanation why no further sums have been paid by me in liquidation of the moneys stolen from the ...
The Honorable The Colonial Secretary.