No 143
Financial
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of embarkation. The Superintendent will be required on his appointment to give security to the amount of $250.
The number of Prisoners on board is 280.
Your love.
Consent
Sureties may be left here by the
The Duties are heavy. I
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Blue Book Fees $160.
The duties of the Superintendent will be those of a similar Officer in any Criminal
Goal. The convicts are Chinese. The acting governor of Hong Kong has reported that he can find in the Colony no fit person from the place so important a situation.
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Hongkong.
28th July, 1863
My Lord Duke,
In paragraph 5 of my Despatch No 127 of this instant I mentioned the necessity of further Expenditure on the Hongkong Water works.
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I have now received and enclose Mr Cleverly's letter covering his report and the Estimate of the sum requisite to be expended,
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle, K.G..
AUG.