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embarrassed _ in short- if the Rate collection be carried on without further difficulties His Excellency will be satisfied, new check be reported, it will

but if any be the duty of the Acting Governor to take

that the functions

measures

for securing

of Government in this respect are properly conducted and this he is prepared to do._ His Excellency desires therefore that the correspondence cease, and that

exercise such supervision

over

your

you

Department as will conduce to the

orderly working of Ordinance W5 5 of 1813

I have se:

(Signed) W. H. Alexander.

Acting Colonial Secretary-

Inclosure 2 in Desp. N. 200 of 1883.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 10th November 1863.

beg

leave to submit a few

observations on the letter addressed by

Mr Forth the Colonial Treasurer to Sir Frederick Rogers, transmitting

Copy of a Correspondence that has- passed between that officer and

myself...

It is not easy to

understand

ator Forth's object in thus addressing Sir Frederick Rogers, except

on the

hypothesis that he conceives himself

aggrieved and takes this mode of bringing

his complaint to the notice

of Her Majesty's Government; this

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embarrassed _ in short- if the Rate collection be carried on without further difficulties His Excellency will be satisfied, new check be reported, it will but if any be the duty of the Acting Governor to take that the functions measures for securing of Government in this respect are properly conducted and this he is prepared to do._ His Excellency desires therefore that the correspondence cease, and that exercise such supervision over your you Department as will conduce to the orderly working of Ordinance W5 5 of 1813 I have se: (Signed) W. H. Alexander. Acting Colonial Secretary- Inclosure 2 in Desp. N. 200 of 1883. 0 27 Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th November 1863. beg leave to submit a few observations on the letter addressed by Mr Forth the Colonial Treasurer to Sir Frederick Rogers, transmitting Copy of a Correspondence that has- passed between that officer and myself... It is not easy to understand ator Forth's object in thus addressing Sir Frederick Rogers, except on the hypothesis that he conceives himself aggrieved and takes this mode of bringing his complaint to the notice of Her Majesty's Government; this Page 30 Page 31 12.

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embarrassed _ in short- if the Rate collection be carried on without further difficulties His Excellency will be satisfied, new check be reported, it will but if any be the duty of the Acting Governor to take that the functions measures for securing of Government in this repect are properly conducted and this he is prepared to do._ His Excellency desires therefore that the correspondence cease, and that exercise such supervision over your you Department as will conduce to the orderly working of Ordinance W5 5 of 1813 I have se: (Signed) W. H. Alexander. Acting Colonial Secretary- Inclosure 2 in Desp. N. 200 of 1883. 0 27 Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th November 1863. beg leave to submit a few observations on the letter addressed by Mr Forth the Colonial Treasurer to Sir Frederick Rogers, transmitting Copy of a Correspondence that has- passed between that officer and myself... It is not easy to understand ator Forth's object in thus addressing Sir Frederick Rogers, except on the hypothesis that he conceives himself aggrieved and takes this mode of bringing his complaint to the notice of Her Majesty's Government; this Page 30Page 31 12.

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