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Mr. Taylor has spoken to me about the
draft reply to No.52. I am afraid that we cannot comply with the Crown Agents request. When I drafted the Order I was told that it was required to validate payments already made by the Crown Agents with the approval of the Secretary of State, for the purposes specified in Clause 2(1). I accordingly inserted Clause 6, which gives the Order retrospective operation from the 26th of December, 1941, and which is quite sufficient for this purpose. I was not told that it was necessary to validate any payments made by the Crown Agents without the approval of the Secretary of State. If such payments have in fact been made they cannot now be approved under this Order.
Further, I understood that every payment or every class of payments, which it was intended that the Crown Agents should make under Section 2 would be specifically approved by the Secretary of State, and under the section as it stands, the Secretary of State cannot, in my opinion, give a general approval for application of Hong Kong moneys for any of the purposes specified in that section as respects either past or future payments.
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