Assistant Colonial Secretary to Surveyor General
11038.
Colonial Secretary's Office Hong Kong 19th August 1880.
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor in Council to request that you will be good enough to forward with the least possible delay the papers in the Coughtrie's Case, as they are required for the deciding of the Executive Council.
I have, &c.
(Signed) Frederick Stewart
Colonial Secretary.
The Honourable
J. M. Price
Surveyor General.
Page 413
Extract from Minutes of the Executive Council.
21st August 1880
Present
"His Excellency the Governor - Sir John Pope Hennessy, KCMG.
"The Hon. The Officer Commanding the Troops, Col. Stall, R.A.
"The Hon. The Acting Colonial Secretary, F. Stewart
"The Hon. The Attorney General, J. H. Stewart
"The Hon. J. H. Walley
"The Hon. J. M. Price
The Governor enquired if the papers in the Coughtrie Case which had been sent to the Surveyor General on the 26th ult., for which the Acting Colonial Secretary had been requested at the last Meeting of Council to write again to Mr. Price, had come to hand.
"The Acting Colonial Secretary, (F. Stewart) said they had not yet reached him.
"Mr. Price said they would be in the hands of the Acting Colonial Secretary in a few days.