CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6] — Page 98

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No. 8.

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In 5303/53

96

Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria,

Hongkong, the 21th March, 1853.

I have the honor to acknowledge the

receipt of your letter of the 18th March, instant,

- one to remit to the Paymaeter

No. 62, requesting

General for Naval Services the sum

of £.104,0

on

account of the passage from this place provided.

for me

between the 23rd.

2373 July

and the 22nd

September last.

Co

I should immediately comply with

your request. but that I believe it has been__ overlooked in calculating the sum due that the fare for ordinary passengers in the mouth of July

last. when the passage

so

that the contract;

in

was ordered, was £.130;

+ fare, (if I understood it

was £86.13.4

aright to be two-thirds of the former), The enclosed letter from the Superintendent of

The Honorable

Lt. Coll. W. Laine,

Colonial Secretary