Request that you will forward these matrices to this Department, in order that they may be sent to the Royal Mint for preservation in the collection maintained there.
On reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
No 8025
Gor? inf& 20.1-14 Dece 68.
Sir,
1352 Chong Trong ·EIV 439 25H Treasury Chambers RF 3:0: DECL 1868 & 8th December 1868.
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 1st Inst submitting your despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong No. 852, of 35. enclosing Supplementary Estimates and Reports for 1868; and I am desired by their Lordships to convey to you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, their approval of the Estimates in question.
I am, Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
Under Secretary of State to the Colonial Office
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