54002/40
Dear Young,
24th October, 1940.
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Hall-Patch wrote to me on 22nd June last a letter, of which I enclose a copy in case in the recent disturbances the Treasury record of it may have vanished, regarding the payment of the Hong Kong substitute for income tax on the salary of the United States Treasury representative there. We sent a telegram, of which I also enclose a copy, to Hong Kong and although we have had no specific reply to that telegram we have recently heard that on the 29th August a Bill was introduced in the Legislative Council to amend the Ordinance concerned inter alia to extend the exemption of consular salaries etc., to cover other employees of foreign Governments in particular "the case of the Treasury representative of a State whom it may be considered desirable or politic to exempt" to quote from the Objects and Reasons.
We have not yet heard that the amended Bill has actually been passed but you may wish to pass this on to whoever was the originator of Hall-Patch's enquiry.
N.E. YOUNG, ESQ., M.C.
Yours sincerely,