have.

Here, His Excellency will doubtless regard the amount of the Emoluments of the office during the past two years, which I am informed amounted to more than £2000 per annum.

I trust His Excellency will be pleased to submit my name to the Right Honorable The Secretary of State and give my candidature his powerful support.

I have re...

(Signed) J. Mussell
Police Magistrate

Sir,

The Magistracy,
Hongkong, 20th February 1876.

In reply to your letter of the 28th instant, I have the honor to state that if the Right Honorable the Secretary of State is pleased to appoint me to the Office of Registrar of the Supreme Court, I shall be quite prepared to accept whatever salary His Lordship may attach to the Office.

I have te...

(Signed) J. Russell
Police Magistrate

The Honorable
J. Gardiner Austin
Colonial Secretary

True Copies;
Colonial Secretary's Office

GR1178/1922/32(III)

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