Sir,
RECEIVED
AUG 2 1846
1841-1886
30
43
Colonial Office Victoria,
Hongkong, 1st May, 1845:
I have the honor to submit to Your Excellency the Blue Book of the Colony for the year 1844, and to report that the same is ready for transmission to Her Majesty's Government.
Besides the great difficulty I have found in getting accurate returns on most of the subjects it embraces, I have to inform Your Excellency (in explanation of the apparent delay in its completion), that it was only in the course of this week I received the finally corrected returns of Revenue and Expenditure for the year.
His Excellency,
John Francis Davis