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that the conditions under which the Government of Hong Kong offers to undertake the management of the

I of the Post Office of gencies at

the Consular Parts

should be agre

in China and

agreed to by your

Japan

Lordships.

Those conditions are that this

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and the

· expense

will be slightly mereased when

Post Offices shall be established at the oFew Ports about to be opened under the stew Treaty of

Tien_tsin.

I would

ed suggest to your Lordships, howeve,

that this arrangement should be considered "

to be revised

as only a temporary me.

when

experience

Department shall

срау

the Faluries of the

to and from

Officers employed at the several Ports for

attending to the Post Office bresiness,

and

that the Hong Kong Post Office shall

undertake to

defray

feach of these Offices

Shund

the incidental expenow

will suvolve a present Expenditure

on the part of this Department of £510 a year the Salaries of the several Offices being fixed

court;

can be gained of the amount

derived from the Postage of the letters

the Porto

Ports and

and of

the

comeyed

expense

which

the entire management of the Offices entails

upon the Hong Kong Post Office

I have J.

(Signed) Stanley of Alderley

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