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that no Balance which

may remain available from the amount voted for

one of these services

is to be considered as

applicable to the other.

I have,

26.016-

80

2

2

Copy to Gov: 98-13 Feb.

Pole to

Lov: 110-4

May 149

C.

116D Hong Kong

FEB. 7 1849

Procedure

acknowledged Cheerfully 6 February 1849.

With reference to the Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong

and

to the Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure of this Colony for the Year 1849, submitted to this Board

Communication of the 6th

in

your December last, I am

directed by

the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to request that

You will state to Earl Grey that

as the Governor will have been apprised by their Lordships' despatch of the 21st September last, of the Principles by which he must be guided in incurring Expenditure, and of the limited extent of the aid likely to be available to the Colonial Resources from the Friends of this Country, My Lords, observing the Charges for Establishment and Contingent

that

Departmental