N223.
Financial.
30JAN1864
My Lord,
Hongkong, 15th December, 1863
I have the honor to report that I have advanced to W. Keshelm Sampson the sum of Seventeen thousand five Hundred Dollars, $17,500.
being the amount required for the Shipment of Five Hundred Emigrants for British Guiana calculated at Thirty-five dollars per Emigrant the scale agreed
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle, K.G.