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making the mission wige füßen
in the
of remothay".
Amount
Adamal
Postage that is
due to Port Opin of
Office
on
accoul
Hongkong of the trace mucci on b
the
this Country of
Botanical
Box of Specimens addressed
to
You from Japan
Registered No 28687.
any further correspondence this subject, the above Number should be quoted.
Ju 4279/63
General Post Office, 28th April 1863.
I have submitted to the Postmaster
General your
sent to
Me
223
letter of the 21st instant, which
by M. George Russell of the Office of Works, and his Lordship is quite willing, under the circumstances, to forego,
on the part of the Post Office, the whole of the British portion of the postage charged
upon the box of botanical specimens
addressed to
you from Japan.
A sum of
There remains, however, £ 16. 8s 10d, for which this Department has had to account to the Post Office at Hong Kong, and this amount, as it belongs to the Colonial Government, Lord Stanley is unable to give up.
In order to obtain a remission of the Colonial postage, it will be necessary for William Hooker.
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