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although the Police and
Branch
Avas
Sighting Rate
incorporated in July 1863.
- with the Treasury
and the staff of
that Department thereby increasin
-
I have in other assistanu - exclusive of Chinese Shroffs - but a copying Clerk:
Messrs de Carvalho
and Alves
are efficient but they have
very little time
to devote to the Police and Sighting Rate Branch of the Treasury - they
that practically the Police and
Lighting Rate Branch remained an
office by itself.
are both Portuguese.
28. The Revenue and
Expenditure have,
of the Colony of Hong Kong,
Combined, increased gradually from £166,572 in 1860 to £369,371 in 1865 and the whole of the labour
attendant upon the Receipts, Payments,
and Returns
Consequent thereon fall
upon the Cashier Mr Carvalho and
upon the Accountant Mr Alves,
as well as
the Copying Clerk and the three have but a
very imperfect knowledge of English.
29. My reference to able Clerks for
the information called for by the Auditor in February 1865 was that the several applications made at my instance, to the offices of the Court for the affidavits containing information necessary to audit the
the ...