In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No.161426/C/117.
And address,
bat toTM
not to any person by name,
"The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S,W,1,
Sir,
CO
73736
FOREIGN OFFICE.
603 1
S.W.1.
December 29 1919.
2
With reference to the Colonial Office letter No.66922/
Smarts 1919 of the 6th instant, I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch which has been received from His Majesty's Acting Consul
at Saigon, in which he requests that he may receive by way
of remuneration a commission on the amount of rice purchased
by him on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong.
2. In a circular despatch dated March 1st, 1916, the
Secretary of State, in view of the fact that Consular
Officers were making large disbursements on behalf of Depart-
ments of His Majesty's Government which were not contemplated
when the instructions in Chapter IX, Section X(d) of the
Consular Instructions were framed, laid it down that sanc-
tion could not be given to the charge of commission of two
The Under-Secretary of State,
and/
Colonial Office, S.W.1.
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