Enclosure.
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The Colonial Surgeon to The Honourable Colonial Secretary
(copy)
Government Civil Hospital
Hong Kong. December 18th 1883.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 187/2 of the 15th Inst. enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Secretary of State concerning my application for an increase of pay, and most respectfully to decline the offer therein made; preferring to remain under the terms on which I received my present appointment.
I have, etc.
Th. H. Agnew
Colonial Surgeon
The Honourable W. H. Marsh, C.M.G.
Colonial Secretary
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