ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED AND REMITTANCES MADE PAYABLE TO THE MANAGER"
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Hongkong To Shanghai Banking Corporation.
27/SEP 33
37.
26th
"September 1889.
The Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies.
Downing Street,
London, S.W.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th inst., enclosing copy of a letter from the Treasury relative to the proposed amendment of the Hongkong Ordinances affecting this Corporation's Bank Note issue, and informing me that on learning that the Bank will deposit securities to the value of Two millions, five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000), Lord Knutsford will at once authorize the Governor of Hongkong to introduce the required amending Ordinance, of which you have handed me a draft.
In reply, I beg to inform you that I have been in telegraphic communication