CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 153

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

requisites, to contrab

every detail of local expenditure ni a distant

Colony from thei's Country.

will understand,

Aut paulu

and you

འ/

will take care

that thie Chief Officers

Pov! are made

of you Awary, that with the

helps of

Op of the proposed and from Parliament in

order to provide against deficiency within

a

Curent

year, you

are

expected to adopt an

the spot such measures

As may thing

bring the

Colonial

from hencefall,

151

Colonial expenditure

Clearly within the

Colonial revenue.

I have not over-

looked the Arguments

forwarded in yours

despatch N26 of the

12th of January,

bat I

Cannot admit that

because Hong Kong is op

use to the Mother

Country, it s

it & have

dhot

pay for call the demande of it's local Administration. If it were not of use,

it would not be

maintained, nor would

layo

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