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But the real purport of that despatch was to make a demand for further contribution on the ground that circumstances rendered it necessary to increase the garrison.
This is clearly shown in the first paragraph where Your Lordship addresses me on here, on the subject of the additional garrison required "by the fortifications recently created at Hongkong and their armament."
Again in paragraph 7 Your Lordship says - "The cost of this garrison (i.e. the future garrison) will be about £280,000 a year and will consequently be nearly three times as great as was the expense of the garrison in 1863, when the Colonial contribution was fixed?"
In paragraph 19 Your Lordship remarks "that the £40,000