should
be allowed to authorize
remittances, I have to
inform you that pending reference to the Secretary of
State
you
will be at
Liberty to Sanction portions
of salary being drawn through
the Crown Agents in cases
satisfied
Where
you
that the remittances are
made bona fide for the Objects for the conditions which have been specified my despatches, but you will understand that?
with all such cases brought-
under
my
notice at the same
time as instructions are
Sent to the Agents.
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I With reference to the
two concluding paragraphs of your despatch now under reply I have
to report your careful attention to my despatch
h = 82 of the 18th of
September last, and I
have
again
to remind
you that the salaries of the Colonial Officials in Hongkong
Are So many
Silver
dollars, and that I am not prepared to admit that the fact that their salaries have not the same purchasing power with respect to