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you

and if the recovery of the money seem to

possible to instruct

ayou

to take the necessary

steps against Mr baldwell.

I have to

(Signed)

W. S. Mcerver,

Colmial Secretary;

(Time Copy) Voleurm

Colonial Secretary

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Attorney General to Colonial Secretary Attorney General's Office,

In

Contained in

26th of June

and

Houng King, July 84, 1861

Compliance with the request.

your

94

letter to me No 405 dated the

June 1861. I have pernoed the despatch

ice on the subject of the claim

Correspondence

on

preferred by the Government of Honghong against Mr. baldwell late Registrar General

Considering the time when the Bond

was executed by Mr. Caldwell and his sureties

viz : after the robbery had been

robbery had been announced)

to He is Excellency

it cannot

be

emsidered that

the Bond secured the amount which haw-

been previously stolen, I therefore treat the

The Honorable

M. T. Mercer, Coque.

Colonial Secretary

per

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