Dispatch N. 228871883
Inclosure No I in
Copy
2 of 228.
Attorney General's office,
310
declining
to repay the $500 the Ship
"Artville"
in account
17th December 1863
Sir,
Hongkong, 24th December, 1863.
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your Letter
of the 23rd insto No 1,594 inclosing a Despatch received from His Grace the Duke with copies of
from C.A. Williamson and
of from Newcastle together with a letter addressed to allow his reply:
I have in compliance with the request of His Excellency the Acting Governor perused the Documents forwarded and am of opinion that Mr Kitto's ... the Registrar ... as the sole
The Honorable
M. H. Alexander Lage,
Acting Colonial Secretary.