(signed) Ng Choy
Iching Police Magistrate.
Magistrate to Acting Police Magistrate.
The Honourable
Lich Mark to Acting Police Magistrate.
Sir,
Magistracy, Hongkong,
23 March, 1881.
I have the honour to request you to be good enough to forward this application for the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Governor and to England through Her Majesty's Crown Agents for the Colonies a further sum of £50 per annum in addition to the amount allowed me by authority conveyed in C.O.11340.
I have my daughter in England since 1876 and this amount is required to pay for her education.
The Honourable
Ng Choy,
Acting Police Magistrate,
I have to,
(Signed) James Parker,
First Clerk.
Shongkong.