Enclosure.
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Treasurer on the subject in so far as it affects his position.
I have the honour to be My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Grüßen Berken
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Colonial Treasurer to Acting Colonial Secretary.
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Treasury.
Hongkong 14 June, 1891.
I have the honour to transmit the following remarks for the consideration of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and to express the hope that, as I feel constrained to make them not only in justice to myself but to future Treasurers of this Colony, they may not be deemed presumptuous.
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I learn with surprise that it has been decided that the Treasurer shall pass to the bottom
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