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No 1940 and 1,281 and that as for
I have been allowed to do so at Hongkong
it has been my earnest wish to protect my official conduct from aspersions not merited... I have no desire therefore that the Secretary of State for the Colonies should be troubled with the matter
I have merely brought under your notice mis-apprehension." I might otherwise be subjected to if I were to remain silent..
I have the honor to be Dir
Your Most-Obedient Servant.
Forthe Colonial Treasurer.
Sought to state that it is only since July last that a recent Ordinance has ingrafted upon my Department that hitherto Known as the Office of Police and Lighting Rates and then supervised by Mr... Grandpre a Gentleman of Portuguese origin and, whose Subordinates M... de Souza, Mop & J Hyndman duran, and de Carvalho now attached to the Treasury - also Portuguese and so acquainted with our Language that I have, invariably to address M... de Souza through an Interpreter and often I am obliged to have recourse to Mr de Carvalho the Cashier to explain to M. Hyndman in his own tongue the precise nature of my instructions : That I encounter difficulties which Mr Grandpre could not experience as I have done since July last upon the introduction by Ordinance.