CO129-022 - Public Offices - 1847 — Page 209

At the sauce time I think it right to state to Your Lordships that as the Fost office has retablished no Packet communication between Hong Kong and the Ports of Cline, I doubt whether it ways be adorable at prevent to interfere with the arrangements which the Merchants of

Hong Kong have made for

of their conexpondence

With reference

the

Conveyanced

reference to the suggestion

of Earl Grey that.

I made

that Enquiry whether the lega

should be

Crater of Postage

between Hong Kong and China may not

be medely high, I beg leave to informed

underly Your Lordships that the rate chargeable.

such letter is 4. for Each Letter

Ирти

not exceeding half an ounce in wright -

proportion; which rate was

and so on in

fixed by Your Lordships Warrant of the

1840. as the charge upor

#th September 1840. as

all Letters conveyed by private ship

between

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between any of ther Majestyp Exleine, and any Foreign Port, with mit pafsing through the United Kingdom; and in my

officion this rate is not too high

I have be

Cruana Post Office

19th July 1847 -

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