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secure this power of making ours covering
remittances at the same rate as that
which the public pays for the orders The Commission
20
received from
the Public on Money Order Accounts
will be divided between the brother
Country and Hongkong according
principle which governs similar transactions with other Colonies.
29.
With's reference to the illegal conveyance of letters by this Contract:
Mail packets and otherwise to which
Your Excellency's been called our special Attention, we beg to report that no additional evidence of this practice has
Come to our notice since the matter was
fully brought before you in a letter dated 25 January last, W:10; but we have
much reason to think that the System still prevails although not to the extent it did
formerly. We think that, if the measures recommended in the letter above alluded to are adopted,
and if sorting Officers are placed
on board the Mail Packets between
Singapore and Shanghai, as proposed
in paragraph 21 of this report, this System will
probably be altogether stopped, as regards letters conveyed by the Contract Packet, inasmuch