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distressed - not, as I may have conveyed.
It, from public Funds (i.e. from Her Majesty's Treasury in England) but from local Colonial lands.
I would therefore, with your considerate Sanction, submit that further attention given to the Subject may enable your Lordship to alleviate the hardship to which I should be subjected were on my removal from Office one-fourth of the pension assigned by your Lordship to be devoted to the payment of nearly one-half the Cost of my compulsory Return to England.
Soliciting therefore that your Lordship may be pleased to give effect to the unanimous recommendations placed on record by the Legislative Council of Hongkong, that I should receive the whole cost of a passage from that Colony to England,
I have the honour to be, My Lord, your Lordship's very obedient Servant, Fred South
7.7757-71. Hongkong
MINUTE PAPER.
Made the 16.
Lieut he has been crying it on indirectly. I would simply refer him to our last letter which contained a reply to the same question now raised.
Refer K L M