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Royal Mint.
6th January 1865.
With reference to the report and Estimate 1:2 of 1864 for the erection of
the Hong Rong Mint amounting to Iwelve thousand, five hundred pounds transmitted to the secretary of the Treasury in a letter from Sir F. Rogers dated 30th December 1864 I have to- state that the Estimates appear moderate in amount the mason work in
particular being contracted for, for less
them it could be executed in London
Some of the
arrangements provided for the Masters résidence appear to be in duplicate but that arises as
informed from the single
I am
Residence of the original plom being
now divided into two residences
to
a
according local Surveyor
George Attamilton
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to
suggestion of the
and would
not
materially
Treasury