Sam to request that you will forward the accounts for the preliminary expenses as incurred, as shown in the memorandum attached to your letter, to the Agents for 5,9 Storing Gardens who have been instructed to discharge them.
And I take the opportunity of intimating that His Grace would wish to be informed whether you can be so good as to forward all bills of expenditure where they are free, duly certifying their correctness, and will be sent with the necessary instructions regarding payment to the Colonial Expenses.
You will furnish Lord Cottenham with an approximate estimate of the amount which it will be necessary to provide in this country on account of Hong Kong, so that in order that the Governor of Hong Kong may be called upon to make a remittance to the Colonial Agents for that service.