For your information, copies of correspondence with the Treasury on the subject are enclosed.
A copy of a letter from the China Association dated the 14th of July, to which the Treasury refers in their last letter, is also enclosed, together with a copy of a despatch regarding British possessions outside the country.
2. I am to inform you by my telegram of 7th instant that the Treasury has agreed to guarantee the Hongkong Government against one half of any loss which may arise from the abolition of the letter rate between the Treaty Port of China and other places. During the beginning of the 18th of October next, provided that the Municipal Council at Tientsin will guarantee the other half of the loss, the Treasury Agency will...
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...the correspondence between the Treaty Port of China and other places. The Municipal Council at Tientsin will guarantee the other half of the loss for the year.
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