to its address.
Puplicate and chiplicate of above: named letter and copies of correspondence shall in accordance with the regulation be handed you early next week, there not being time to prepare them— today,
my intention
and it is
to forward quadruplicate direct to the Right Honorable The Earl of Carnarvon by the mail. leaving Thursday next.
I have to
(signed) P. Ryrie.
1 True copy)
Colonial
I Sentary.
"
My Lord
Hongkong 114 December 1874.
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I humbly bey to bring to your
notice certain circumstances connected wit
the passing in Council
of
the Estimate
for the Expenditure of this Colony during
the
year. 1875, and with that view include
the Minutes espy of
of the
herein
meeting of the Legislative Council held
on 13th November last
as
follows:
Friday 13th - Nocrember 1874.
Present.
„The Honorable the Colonial Secretary (John
Gardiner Austin)
4 The Honorable the Attorney General (John
Bramston)
The Honorable the Colonial Treasurer (Cecil
Clementi Smith)
The Right Honorable
The Earl of Carnari
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Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Colonies.