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alternative but to presume that the General is right in making the claim referred to, and I must ask you to send your application for the Military Contribution through Colonel Bassano.
It is a matter of great regret that there should be any unpleasantness about this, to the Government, trivial matter.
Yours & (signed) Leecil Smith.
(Three copies)
Sending Machin
Colonial Secretary's Office
Copy No. 464-
Sir,
As you appear to be labouring under some misapprehension as to the scope of the instructions given to Colonial Officers in deference to the wishes of the Honourable The Major General Commanding relative to correspondence between the Military and Colonial Departments I am authorized by His Excellency Colonel Shervinton, Assistant Commissary General,
Hongkong. 19th June, 1876.
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