CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 15

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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Mongkong Trevourer was formerly

£1,200 now reduced to £ 500

per annum although the duties have increased and the responsibility exceeds that contemplated, at the time the Salary had been fixed

at

+ £1,200 per annum.

forward for your Excellency's information and that of lord Clarendon Copics of the last

me to

three Warrants directing.

to Mochow, Kingpo

forward

and Shanghai, a

sum

of

9, 640 Dollars and that for my

own.

on security to avoid loss

I

have insured that sum at some

cxpense to myself - Jam not ausare of any Law or Regulation

favor

which would relieve me personal responsibility of the

9. bus Dollars were not to reach their respective destination, I enalove a Copy of the Policy of Insurance Thave obtained for

the sum I have stated.

Aware by my prosition as Colonial Treasurer, that Lord Clarendon has been pleased to grant the Surveyor General of Angking a calary of £ 200

per annum and that it is in

contemplation to

splation to assign pearly to

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