I. In reply I am
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request you
1 to
inform
the L.C
2. Cof
the
1
Admiralty that Mr Chamberlain
would be glad if the amount in
question
had once been credited to the Hongkong Revenue the leader of lion could be paid to
For the Glamis
t
Current
to C. Agents at the Treasury
Rate of Exchange. for Imperial
Payments in the East.
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Graham.
E. Wingfield.
Earl of Selborne.
Chamberlain,
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Gentlemen,
I am
3 Oct
directed
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by
Mr Secretary Chamberlain to
inform you that it has
decided that the Admiralty should
pay to the Hongkong Gov't, from
Rent on Admiralty property which
they have acquired
in that
Colony that the Rent
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question should be commuted
for
a sum
of $27859.
noted
3dfi
the
requested
2 The Admiralty have been
pay there and equivalent of the
to credit this
You
amount
Hongkong Funds in your hands
at the current Treasury rate so to
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