Ominere employs of Mesin Lammert Achinson and well knowing that the receipt was signed without authority by Ng_a. Shing, Clerk at the Magistracy, and that Messrs Lammert Atkinson and Eg had never received the amount which the Voucher purported to have been paid to them.
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Mr. Prior to Rowling Colonial Secretary.
Acting
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Sir,
Hong Kong, 8th April, 1873
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of letter requiring me to attend at a meeting of the Executive Council tomorrow at Noon and be present.
I beg respectfully to ask that His Excellency may be pleased to defer it until...
The Honorable
The Acting Colonial Secretary,
Hong Kong...