Sir,
With reference to your application for leave on the 521 Acting Colonial Secretary to I M Price Colonial Secretary & Office. 51+ Hongkong. 21st December, 1880. 522 your application of the 22nd instant, I am to inform you that it was submitted to the Executive Council by the Governor, and, as you had made a specific allegation, as follows: "Mr Ford's Report on 'Frest management' of the 16th of October, 1879 which appeared in the Government Gazette of the 31st of July, 1880, was ~ officially printed, because during that period
how. J. M. Price Surveyor General