CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844 — Page 220

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from the 55th

Arrangements were in progress derived from Sir & Bottingers despatch Nos 4 and 19, the first enclosing correspondence with

Major D'Aguilar respecting

the appointment of certain of the good men of the 65th Regt as Policemen -

and the second desiring to be informed whether the Bounty payable to those men on their volunteering from the 55th to the 98th Regt was to be charged to the Civil or the Military Chest.

I have been in communication with His Excellency the Commander in Chief on this subject, and I have now to inform you that, looking at all the circumstances of the case, it has been decided that as the men transferred from the 55th to the 98th Regt are required exclusively as Police Constables, they should not remain on the effective strength of any of the Regiments composing the Garrison at Hong Kong. They will accordingly be discharged from the Army and placed at the disposal of the Civil Governor of Hong Kong, employed in the Police Force; and under these circumstances, the Bounty will be payable to them on their volunteering from the 55th to the 45th Regiment.

Arrangements were in progress derived from Sir & Bottingers despatch Nos 4 and 19, the first enclosing correspondence with

Major D'Aguilar respecting

the appointment of certain of the good men of the 65th Regt as Policemen -

and the second desiring to be informed whether the Bounty payable to those men on their volunteering from the 55th to the 98th Regt was to be charged to the Civil or the Military Chest.

I have been in communication with His Excellency the Commander in Chief on this subject, and I have now to inform you that, looking at all the circumstances of the case, it has been decided that as the men transferred from the 55th to the 98th Regt are required exclusively as Police Constables, they should not remain on the effective strength of any of the Regiments composing the Garrison at Hong Kong.

They will accordingly be discharged from the Army and placed at the disposal of the Civil Governor of Hong Kong, employed in the Police Force; and under these circumstances, the Bounty will be payable to them on their volunteering from the 55th to the 45th Regiment.