In the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
57 Number
11760
97
15963/97
REG 51 JUL 97
TREASURY CHAMBERS,
30 July 1897
227
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury desire me to say, in reply to your letter of the 23rd instant, that They concur in the proposal of Mr Secretary Chamberlain that the Convict, Edith Carew, should be removed from Hong Kong to a prison in this country, and therein maintained at the expense of British Funds.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Francis Mowatt
The Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office.