I have authorised the Crown Agents to discharge huge claims out of funds in their possession belonging to you forth.
In the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
Goring No. 33
12 March
636
1787/68.
9569
Sin,
11/12
RECEIVED
MARIO 1369
Mong trong
243
Treasury Chambers
9. March 1869.
I am directed by the Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to state, for the information of Lord Granville, that My Lords approve Estimates (N. 2-16) of 1869, for sundry public Works at Hong Kong which were submitted in your Letter of the 27th ult.
The Report, Estimates are herewith returned, as requested.
I am,
Sin,
Your Obedient Servant,
the Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office