Houghong Mint,

on any

other items of Colonial Expenditure.

If, however, the

convenience of the Colony renders it expedient

to advance at once

from the Colonial Balances, or from the yearly revenues, the sum necessary for the establishment of the mint, I shall be prepared to give my favorable consideration

to a proposal that the Colony should raise that sum by loan, or debentures, or otherwise. [Buchanan]

Sum to be repaid from the profits of the mint

before your committee on it

90510

Sui

32.

5140.

84-

zesh

534 vong cong

21 JUN 1864

in reply to

your

250

Treasury Chambers-

20th June 1864-

letter of

the Instant,

I am commanded by the Lords

Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

to acquaint you, for the information

of

Mr. Secretary Cardwell, that they have no objection to the supplementary estimates of Expenditure for Hong Kong

for 1863.

or

The Hong Kong Ordinance, no 3 of 1864. to authorize the appropriation

of a supplementary sum, not exceeding

Dollars, 152,000.

to defray

charges of

the

year

I am, Sir,

your obedient Servant;

Leslie Allemand

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