CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12] — Page 101

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I am therefore, my

Lord inchbionop,

compelled to entreat the serious attention of Your Grace, and of the Committee of the Colonial Bishopics tund, to the financial circumstances of this See. Most respectully, but most ingently, I request the immediate payment (through my agents Mefs" Thompson 38 Meincing Lane L. 6.) of the £2000 to which I consider myself legally and "

receipt of which sum

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I shall be prepared if required to do so,

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to repay the £600 grant from the Colonial Bishoprics Sund. I must further

лиде necefaity of raising the annual income

the

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f of this Bishonic hom £1000 to £2000,

with an

allowance for travelling expenow

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visiting the Seaports and cities of China,.

or, as

I have already sheum, in accordance

with the rate of receipt

and

expenditure of

a sum equal to equal to

money in Honghong, to a sum that the income is £1000

supposed to be- viz:

a year and travelling expenses. May Lord Archbishop, Notwithstanding the circumstances I have detailed I do not

desire to represent myself as disappointed

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discouraged. Meuch that I have witnessed in longtong has fiverably

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surpaped my expectations. I have been accustomed to meet, and, I hope I may

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