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recommended for the Packet Agent

Communica ted

Post Office.

to the Hongkong

Finally - Instead of the

contribution of this Department

the Agencies

towards the cxpense of the

in China and Japan, being in the chape of a portion of the postage charged on the correspondence carried to and from those

Agencies

Ao

had been proposed, the Department

is to hay

to the Hong Kong Post office.

the several salaries

the sum of £1270 annually-being

the amount

of

how paid to the Agents, including

the additional £100 a

a year

Recommender

1

at Shanghai

And

o₤100

added for

Expenses of occasional personal

inspection. In consider

of

this

payment the fovernor of Hong Kong

has expressed his readiness. ሬ

under take

the Agencies

the superintendences of

Ez your letter of the 17th mistaut Aisfrace perceives that the Treasury have already communicated

to the

Duke

of Buckingham and Chandos their assent to the proposed allow aver

of £200 a year (one half to be

hard from the Imperial revenue:) 芯