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COPY.
No. 805/1902 - CLOUD.
4. Ireland, Esq.
Sir,
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 17th. January, 1903.
I am directed to acknowledge with thanks
the receipt of your letter of 21st. ultimo, and to inform you in
reply that Mr. Drayson, Chief Clerk, in this Office has under-
taken to index the Library in the Council Chamber without addi-
tional remuneration and that the system by which documents in
this Department are recorded and filed has already been revised
and is now in full working order.
2.
In expressing my acknowledgments to you
for your willingness to undertake this work, I have therefore
to acquaint you that it will probably be completed before the
date of your return to this Colony.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) F. H. May,
Colonial Secretary.