embarrassed _ in short- if the Rate collection be carried on without further difficulties His Excellency will be satisfied, new check be reported, it will
but if any be the duty of the Acting Governor to take
that the functions
measures
for securing
of Government in this respect are properly conducted and this he is prepared to do._ His Excellency desires therefore that the correspondence cease, and that
exercise such supervision
over
your
you
Department as will conduce to the
orderly working of Ordinance W5 5 of 1813
I have se:
(Signed) W. H. Alexander.
Acting Colonial Secretary-
Inclosure 2 in Desp. N. 200 of 1883.
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 10th November 1863.
beg
leave to submit a few
observations on the letter addressed by
Mr Forth the Colonial Treasurer to Sir Frederick Rogers, transmitting
Copy of a Correspondence that has- passed between that officer and
myself...
It is not easy to
understand
ator Forth's object in thus addressing Sir Frederick Rogers, except
on the
hypothesis that he conceives himself
aggrieved and takes this mode of bringing
his complaint to the notice
of Her Majesty's Government; this
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