Chest as the instalment of the Military Contribution due for the quarter ending ...
To test last ... A copy of the default has been sent to the Crown.
The Agents have informed us that accounts have been paid to the War Office on that account, so that the Lords Commissioners conceive that the payment made into the Crown Agents will be treated as part payment of the advance made by their Lordships on account of the Colony of Hong Kong.
De Lord Chest Esq // Macdonell PR 388
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