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20 well.

Assistant Colonial Secretary of -qualified a practitioner as Mr. Rockhart

cha

will able Ms. March to effect proper supervision and Audit of the

several

Revenue and Expenditure of Public Departments, which will more than recoup the Government for

the addition

of

about £600 a year

to the Civil Establishment:

5. The Clerkship which will be vacated by Ms. Travers might be advantageously filled by one of the Cadets

Mr. Mitchell Innes,) who will in the early part of next year have completed his Chinese Studies at Canton. I am strongly of opinion that, especially as long as the correspondence with the Home Government is kept at the Colonial Secretary's office, one of the Cadets, in addition to the Assistant Colonial Secretary, should be an Englishman of good education, and fully competent to draft letters in correct English. But, if Your Lordship should decide otherwise, it will become my duty to recommend such Instructions to which I have referred above as instructing (and as, I think...

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