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which alludes to "local collections", "Lord Aberdeen understands that passage to refer

merely to monies collected in the Island of Hong Kong. I am to

(signed) I. U. Addington

Copy

1

Copy

To Treasury-

F.O. April 27. 1843.

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Hongkong

Treasury Chamber

28. April. 1845.

RECEIVED

MAY 4

1845

I am commanded by the Lords Comm. of H.M's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Letter of the 27 Feb

Lord Aberdeen, in reply to your

on the subject of the Duties to be performed by the Commissariat Establishment in China, that their lordships' intentions with respect to the employment of Commissary General Offin and the Officers of the Commissariat dept under his orders, as regards the receipt, custody and disposal of the Sums to be received from the Chinese Authorities under the Treaty may

be more explicitly stated as follows.

The sums to be received from Chinese Authorities under the Treaty are to be considered

a separate Fund under the charge

and responsibility of H.M's Plenipotentiary until they shall be disposed of by being

appropriated under Sir H. Pottinger's directions for the purpose of meeting the local Civil and Military Expenditure, or by being remitted to this Country;

in both those ways.

The accounts of this Fund will be rendered

to H.M's Treasury.