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Instead of being sent to your Legation. However, I shall feel obliged by your informing me of the manner in which the expenses are to be recovered, as since the removal of the Consular Auditor from this Colony, there is no longer any Office in the Colony to which application for payment in such cases can at present be made.
I have …
(Signed) Richard Graves MacDonnell, Governor & Commander in Chief.
(Signed) W. M. Deane (Smith?)
Acting Colonial Secretary.
From Mr. Haberton, April 15th, 1872.
British Legation, Peking, April 23, 1872.
Referred to His Majesty's Consul at Kanagawa.
Your despatch of the 28th ultimo on the subject of the reimbursement to the Colony of Hong Kong of the expenses incurred for maintenance of prisoners sentenced by the Consular Court.
His Excellency,
Sir R. G. MacDonnell, Knt., C.B.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.