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further to ask you to be good enough to supply His Excellency in a separate paper with the detailed information indicated in the accompanying copy of a letter from the Board of Treasury.
I have to [signed] H. E. Marsh, Manager Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China to Colonial Secretary.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Hongkong, 20th November, 1879.
The Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong.
Sir,
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 21st Instant requesting us, at the instance of His Excellency the Governor, to furnish you with a statement of the authorities under which this Branch of the above