on account
que de in
f
the loan
of £10,000
Auguet 1866.
only having
one
moiety ar get been repaid;
and on account of sundry liabilities incurred by the form Agents, with the authority of the Secretary of State, to the further extent of £1218 incrfective
pensions for
f
the
the current
quarter payable at the end of September next.
lw
To oneet these debts the Crown Agents have funds hand to the retent of £3060, the greater portion of which, giz £2000, on the maturity
Bill for that amount, has been bought to credit
of a
this day.
Alento
5023
I
appears
to
one that the
144
in
Lords of the Treasury have a frist claim on the finds hand for money leut nearly 12 months since, and should His Grace approve of such a course, I would propose to repay
to their Lordships £5000 in part payment of the debt of £5000, in place of the amount proposed in the from Agents": letter of
the 25th May last.
1
This course, if adopted,
will necessitate advances
about
being made por time to time by the Crown Agents to the Extent of £1200 for outstanding leabilities, for which the Hong Kong Goremment will have