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Kour

of Contin

credit to the Stong Hong government,

any

balance:

nee: which he could make out

to be unexpended of the Diplomatic and

Consular Grants, and requests to be informed of such directions as your hardships may

I think it desciable the Colonial Treasurer,

should receive.

Mpon which

we

beg

leave to report that the Treasurer was called upon by the Governor " to furnish a statement of the Cash balances in the Treasury

on

the

Pt of January 1857, and on 1th January 1888, available to the service of each. subsequent year, exclusive of any amount.. to the credit of the Diplomatic and Consular Branches in China".

For this object it

was not.

necessary

to

to make

any retrospective examination

of the gross amount of the Parliamentary grants" whether in aid of Colonial Revenue

of for the Diplomatic and Consularservice as alluded to in his letter; but merely to ascertain if, from 1853, when the Consular Accounts were rendered entirely distinct from the Hong Hong Treasury:

» foued to the

Clecounts the sums "".

Superintendency

and Consulates exceeded

or fell short of the sums received mito the Colonial Treasury

orr

these accounts

from the Commifariat Chest, and crediting or debiting the Hougtong Government with balance issued in exachs of the amount received, or short issued,

any

the case

might be.

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