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has accordingly desired me to request that W. Scerotary Labouchure will be as to communicate with the so good Governor and to authorize His

Rexcellency

to select a properly qualified person to fill the Office of Postmaster.

year,

The salary of the Office has

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hitherto been six hundred pounds but should the Governor consider that this salary is too high, it will be well to take the present opportunity of reducing

the amount.

I am to add that, so long as the Post Office of HongKong

remains

£600.

remains under the controul of this Department, it will be requisite that the Postmaster should enter, with two sureties, into a Bond to the

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(rown in the sum of £1,000, and the Postmaster General requests that the Governor may

to take such

a

be instructed.

Bond from the

person __ whom he may select for this Office.

In conclusion, Iam to request that the Governor will report, for the information of the Postmaster laneras, the precise date upon which the responsibility of the now

7 new Postmaster

commences, as, up to that time,

M. Heyland,

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