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Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong, 7 September, 44.
In reply to your letter of ... asking for a warrant in favour for $9340, I am directed to state that the services and supplies funds of the Colony are fully appropriated that it will be impossible in future to meet your drafts as heretofore to a greater amount than the sum required to be remitted to the Agents for Colonial expenditure in England, and that the monies in the hands of the Treasurer in the Colony.
Thee: Sampson, Esq...