Your Lordship's approval of this expenditure is requested as the case is one of a kind in which I consider the Executive should exercise, when deserved, a reasonable liberality.
I have the honor to be,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient Servant,
R. MacDonnell,
Governor.
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APR. 24 93
Houthong 3848
23 257
497 26 April/67
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