Telephone No.: WHITEHALL 1234.
FOR
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THE SECRETARY,
TREASURY,
WHITEHALL, LONDON, S.W.1.
and the following number quoted :
$. 36779/2.
Sir,
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TREASURY CHAMBERS.
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23 November, 1934.
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I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of
His Majesty's Treasury to refer to Treasury etter of the
20th May 1933, in reply to Colonial Office letter
(13758/33) of the 6th April 1933, relative to the
question of the Reference of the Hong-Kong Piracy case,
Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong and others, to the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council.
I am to request you to inform Secretary
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister that the disbursements
incurred by the Treasury Solicitor in connection with the
reference, details of which are set out in the
accompanying account, amount to £1,048.13.6., and I am
to ask that the necessary steps may be taken to secure
that half this sum, namely 2524.6.9. may be transferred
to the Vote for Law Charges from the funds of the
bokay and. to A. Kong (20)
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The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
Government