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dispatching mails without expense, the

Monsul and also the Packet

ted that the most

Suggested

economical

is to purchase

at Swator

and to

Agent

have

effectual

and

way of meeting the charge

for

employ

of Ten Dollars

a Boat, which can be done

upon which these

are

about Thirty five Dollers, #25.00

a crew of 2 men at a cost

a

month; the

grounds

are

made-

suggestions

because the leonsular Boat is always

employed on duty connected with the

}

Consulate at the time of the dispater of mails, and very often upon their arrival, and it constantly happens that, Boate

cannot be hired

Packet

Agency.

for the purposes of the.

consider the representations of these

Officers

reasonable, and think it desirable. that they should be adopted.

The Iwatow Agency does not at

present Cost the Government of Hongkong any thing, except the Gratuities paid to the masters of bessels for Carrying ship

Mails, the Salary of the Packet

Agent

bijt ± 40 per

pa an

annum, bei

being paid by the

Imperial

Pest

Office

and the Revenue which

the Colony received in 1861 amounted to

$ 543.08, mi 1862 to $910.95, and in 1889

to # 1232: 16.

I have to

(signed) FM. Mitchell.

Pest Master General

( Ime Copy)

пи

Colmial Secretary

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