In the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
11760
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C.0.
34007 107
REC
REGE 28 OCT 12
TREASURY CHAMBER
26 October 1912.
Sir,
I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury Mr. Read's letter of the 8th June last (16704/1912), forwarding a copy of a despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong on the subject of section 4 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance - No.65 of 1911.
In reply I am to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Harcourt that My Lords agree that section 4 of the Ordinance in question requires amendment, and I am to enclose herewith a draft of the form which They suggest the amendment should take.
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
I am,
sir,
Your obedient Servant,
mp