CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858 — Page 50

The Commissariat

to the proposal of the

at Hongkong, that Sovereigns

should be issued to public

functionaries in

payment

China in

their salaries ; and

of the

that His Lordship trusts that

a

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paught with such

injustice to the interests of

Her

May

of

Majestys

Lewants in China

not receive the sanction

the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty, Teasury.

True Copy

I am, te. (Signed) Shelburne

wher

Copy

My

48

Superintendency of Grade

Hong Kong. 23 A17889.

elly Lord.

I have the honor to forward, for I. L. information, copy of a despatch I have addressed to the Principal Lucretary for the folonies on the subject, of the Currency:

on!

The question to again pressed on my attention by a proposal on the part of the Commissariat to issue sovereigns to the Colonial Treasurer, which I should be compelled to distribute to public functionaries at an enormous loss,

and, in

the payment

in many cases,

in Sovereigns would almost amount to a non-payment of Salary. hope stell Government will protect their servants from the heavy

sacrifices which the essive of an almost iconvertible con much entail upon them.

Ford Clarendon

I have to

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(signed) John Bowring.

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