a copy of a letter
from the Crown Agents to The Merchants
dispatch was received
Their Lordships will
Gather from this letter
the Officers in
China
disinall
that it was originally intended that they
Intended
that the
Officer for the Mint
should proceed to
Hongkong in
a
Sailing
Vessel, but that
it was afterwards found expedient,
of
interest of
that they
I have omitted mention of a sailing
that
by the Ordinary,
have
queried
it but I think
Correct
because when
the Mint officers
in
were Selected it was
on the understanding
of transit which
compared on their Merit did not entail Expenses or any additional Expenditure
that they
supposed that they should be qualified at the Mint then our qualification, being that they were practical Chemists. Whether therefore they had
been sent by long or Short Sea
they
have been qualified as during
the 3 months in
they
were
learning this work They must have had
I
Inward
on
would
recommend that the transit
Expenses
should be
Sanctioned, but that
the Charges from London to Hongkong
incurred