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through the Crown Agents at the
rate of 12/2 to the dollar, and
instincting
that in
future
livre the
of the Goverer of Hongtong
remittances of the
are to be made only
at the market
this Government appointed before 19th
Je
ebruary, 1876, and the exceptional
amount of this portionlar remittance ivos due to the fact
that it re
" represented
besides
one
half of a
month's sa
salary
rate.
I desire in the first place
to explain with regard to the draft in question, that I have ebriethy
lunited
my
remittance to the
proportion (viz : 1/2) of the salary
which
wao
permitted to be remitted.
by my
may
Predecessor
and which
still be remitted by Offices of
the
one
Me
half of the hall salary due to
on arrival
for the
the period of
my passage from England: In respect of future
3.
10 of course abide
reusittances, I shall of
strictly by Your Lordship's
instructions; but I need scarcely
Day
that, involving
the
they do, at
present rate of exchange (3) to
the