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complexity in the accounts, that an uniform Indian rate should be Fashion and accounted for by the Postmaster at Hong Kong, or that each Office should retain the amount it collects, and as I think

one

of these two courses should be adopted

I have made a suggestion to this effect to the East India Company; and I will

communicate with your Lordship further on this point when I shall have received a reply from the Court of Directors on the subject.

Iles to state that I have approved of the arrangements proposed by Sir Henry Pottinger for the receipt and delivery

of the

Letters at Macao, Amoy, and the four Consular Ports in China; and I have only further to add that His Lordship having been pleased to grant the continuance of the Establishment hitherto employed in the post office at Hong Kong, I presume, as the precise extent of that Establishment

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is not stated, nor any amount of remuneration proposed for the Officers employed, that these points will form the subject of a future communication.

General Post Office.

21th Sept 1846

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Lonsdale

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303 complexity in the accounts, that an uniform Indian rate should be Fashion and accounted for by the Postmaster at Hong Kong, or that each Office should retain the amount it collects, and as I think one of these two courses should be adopted I have made a suggestion to this effect to the East India Company; and I will communicate with your Lordship further on this point when I shall have received a reply from the Court of Directors on the subject. Iles to state that I have approved of the arrangements proposed by Sir Henry Pottinger for the receipt and delivery of the Letters at Macao, Amoy, and the four Consular Ports in China; and I have only further to add that His Lordship having been pleased to grant the continuance of the Establishment hitherto employed in the post office at Hong Kong, I presume, as the precise extent of that Establishment 202 is not stated, nor any amount of remuneration proposed for the Officers employed, that these points will form the subject of a future communication. General Post Office. 21th Sept 1846 Ligne as Thant Lonsdale

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? 303 complexity in the accounts, that an uniform Indian rate should be Fashion and accounted for by the Postincester at Amy King, or that each Office should ectain the Comount it collects, and as I thinst one of these tivo courses should be adopted I have mach a suggestion to this effect to the East Indice Company; cona I will cute with your dotsheps further on this point whin I shall have received a reply from the Cost of Dreiters on the subject. Iles to state that I have approved of the arrangements propout by Sir Henry Postenjer for the receipt and delver - deleving of the Letters at Macao, thusan, and the fior Consular Ports in China; and I have only further to add that His Cullen ey having been pleased to grant the continu= :ance of the Establishment hitherto comploya in the post office at Hony Kory, I presume, as the precise of tent of that Establishment 202 is not stated, nor any amount of remuneration proposed for the Officers employed, that these points will form the subject of a future communication. General Post Office. 21th Sept 18hte ) Ligne as Thant Lonsdale

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complexity in the accounts, that an uniform Indian rate should be Fashion and accounted for by the Postincester at Amy King, or that each Office should ectain the Comount it collects, and as I thinst

one

of these tivo courses should be adopted

I have mach a suggestion to this effect to the East Indice Company; cona I will

cute with your dotsheps further on this point whin I shall have received a reply from the Cost of Dreiters on the subject.

Iles to state that I have approved of the arrangements propout by Sir Henry Postenjer for the receipt and delver

- deleving of the

Letters at Macao, thusan, and the fior Consular Ports in China; and I have only further to add that His Cullen ey having been pleased to grant the continu= :ance of the Establishment hitherto comploya in the post office at Hony Kory, I presume, as the precise of tent of that Establishment

202

is not stated, nor any amount of remuneration proposed for the Officers employed, that these points will form the subject of a future communication.

General Post Office.

21th Sept 18hte

) Ligne as

Thant

Lonsdale

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