CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10] — Page 257

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Garrison Office,

Hongkong, 4th August, 1862


I have the honor to forward the enclosed account for Batteries at Wonghong, and Kowloon for consideration of His Excellency the Acting Governor, as the Major General Commanding being referred to decisions ordering the payments thereof, he considers the Colonial Government ought to pay for defenses erected for Colonial security.

...

[Signature]

Colonel Reeves to Colonial Secretary

No. 605.

Forwarding Correspondence respecting payment of the expenditure incurred in the recent construction of ...

with the Military Authorities.

The 4 Batteries ...

are not yet complete.

[Some text appears to be missing or heavily corrupted due to OCR errors.]

Received 1 Inclosure.

N 161.

4 Batteries.

Mr. ... to He Duke of Newcastle.

2.44.

Wepy/Mo.

256

...

Page 10

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Garrison Office, Hongkong, 4th August, 1862 I have the honor to forward the enclosed account for Batteries at Wonghong, and Kowloon for consideration of His Excellency the Acting Governor, as the Major General Commanding being referred to decisions ordering the payments thereof, he considers the Colonial Government ought to pay for defenses erected for Colonial security. ... [Signature] Colonel Reeves to Colonial Secretary No. 605. Forwarding Correspondence respecting payment of the expenditure incurred in the recent construction of ... with the Military Authorities. The 4 Batteries ... are not yet complete. [Some text appears to be missing or heavily corrupted due to OCR errors.] Received 1 Inclosure. N 161. 4 Batteries. Mr. ... to He Duke of Newcastle. 2.44. Wepy/Mo. 256 ... Page 10 (Three lines at the bottom indicating the page number are kept as is, assuming they were part of the original scan: not shown here due to format)
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with it. If the We Offer

Certay

in the crew Exten & the fineral

umentrance frome bit offer with no

doubl

le shortly

pective thinfor whither t

may not be

waited for, exterally

28c

a tu

it is.

Mr. Meren

to

He Duke of Newcastle.

Received

1. Inclosure.

N 161.

4 Batteries.

recent construction of

respecting payment of the expertiture incuned in the

with the Military Authoritie

Forwarding Correspondence

the anachodnie

wait. The 4.0 may.

23

in not yet complete

Meralor

2.44.

Wepy/

Mo. 605.

Colonel Reeves to Colonial Jively s

Secretary

256

The

Su

Garrison Office

th

Houghong, 4th August, 1862

10

I have the hover to forward the

for

the

-enclosed account for Batteries at

Wonghong, and Kowloon considuation of His Excelling the

Acting Governor, as the Major General Commanding

arr

being referred to dectives ordering the pazients thereof, he considers the Colonial Government

as

ought to pay for deferrers erected for

Colonial dentary

Sc.

fc.

1

Yonghong.

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