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should be engaged for the

Police Force they st

be at over discharged

from the Army; and

there discharge

dow

being sent home, the Case

would be submitted to

the Commission

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Hongkong 13 August 1844.

For Sir Henry Pottinger, Lieut. Gov.

Forwarded . AUG 19

Mundoch 10 MB Stephen

M Hope LordStanley |

of Chelsea

that

No19

Vedi Gore Off: Hv

Hospital in order

in those in which the men

have

any

Claim

to Pension, they may fix

the dates on which men

will

be entitled

to cease to be employed in the Police.

Sam,

Your most obedient servant,

K Stephen

Directed by

Lord Stanley to state

to you for the information

of the Secretary at War, that it appears from Despatches recently received from his Excellency Pottinger that arrangements

had been made

as regards nothing

between

the Superintendents and the Major

General Commanding the Force.

as to pensions for military employment of

people & that in

consequence, we must have the option

of using

the

35th Regiment as Police

in that Colony. The 55

men in the Army having the police force

on the return of the

men had been

allowed to volunteer into the 18th Lord

Stanley considers that

the Govt. of Hong Kong, of course, were informed

Sept 19