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or compelled at the rate of 4/2 to the dollar.
Ja
and therefore to request you to move Her Cardwell
to authorize the repayment of the larger sum.
Jam
RHM
No.
7371
2/12
above
It is requested that in any further com-
this subject, the quotation on Number may be quoted; and the Letter
addressed to--
The Under Secretary of State for War,
War Office
Pall Mall. London,
(S.W.)
Agents
(BU
0:0:
·UG23
War Office,
August. 1891.
W.O 7652
Sir,
I am directed by the Secretary of State for War
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th Inst,
i checking
and to acquaint you in reply that, as regards the claim
of the Government of Hong
Kong for subsistence
of Military Prisoner - confined in the Victoria Gaol, it is
always
customary to calculate the number of days
for which subsistence
The Under Secretary
of state,
7. Colonial Office.