CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865 — Page 271

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Royal Mint.

6th January 1865.

With reference to the report and Estimate 1:2 of 1864 for the erection of

the Hong Rong Mint amounting to Iwelve thousand, five hundred pounds transmitted to the secretary of the Treasury in a letter from Sir F. Rogers dated 30th December 1864 I have to- state that the Estimates appear moderate in amount the mason work in

particular being contracted for, for less

them it could be executed in London

Some of the

arrangements provided for the Masters résidence appear to be in duplicate but that arises as

informed from the single

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now divided into two residences

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according local Surveyor

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