CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863 — Page 227

Conside the Jorsport

making the mission wige füßen

in the

of remothay".

Amount

Adamal

Postage that is

due to Port Opin of

Office

on

accoul

Hongkong of the trace mucci on b

the

this Country of

Botanical

Box of Specimens adduped addressed

to

Jou from Sapan

egistered Nea 28687.

any further correspondence this subject, the above Cumber should be quoted.

Ju 4279/63

General Post Office, 28th April 1863.

I have submitted to the Postmaster

General your

sent to

Me

223

letter of the 21th instant, which

by M. George Russell of the Office of Works, and his Lordship is quite willing, under the circumstances, to forego,

the part of the Post Office, the whole of the British portion of the postage charged

upon the box of botanical specimens

addreed to

you from Japan.

A

som of

There remains, however, £ 16. 8t 104, for which this Department has had to account to the Post Office at Hong Kong, and this amount, as it belongs to the Colonial Government, Lord Stanley is unable to give up.

In order to obtain a remission of the Colonial portage, it will be necessary for William Hooker.

Jou