H77260/65 Hog HD q
Gov. N°84
5441/63
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ex officio without any Commission under the authority of the recent Vice Admiralty Courts Act: and, under all the circumstances, the Duke of Newcastle would recommend to their Lordships that Mr Adams should be relieved from that payment.
I am …
Newcastle
Separate
The Officer Administering the Government.
Minute: Mr Gairdner, W Elliot, Six F. Rogers, B34. Mr. C. Fortescue, Duke of Newcastle
For Jy 1863
Downing Street, 31 July 1863.
July 28
Sir,
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I have received your Despatch, N°84, of the 14th of April last, relative to the Commission, which had recently been issued to Mr Adams as Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court at Hong Kong, and the fees chargeable on