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such as Establishment. -

Fawn instructed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to forward this Report to Your Excellency modified

by my

views.

or endorsed

The proposal that of the lost of the Lock Establishment the

half, the

Colony should bear one, Army a quarter, and the Nawy

quarter, exppeart to me capable of a fair reduction of the Share

to

Lan

be borne by the Navy, and an increase to the Share to be borne

by the Army -

But I fully

coneur in the

opinion that the two services

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should share half the expenser of: the Lock Establishment. – I think the amount of annual contribution to be borne by the Army and Nowy, to constitute this half, had better

be arranged in England by Returns from the two Services, showing the number of Mew employed st -Hong Kong, and this Returns. might fairly exclude married Soldiers living with their wives in the Colony. -

Ihave yo

(Signed) Henry Heppel.

Vice Admiral and Commander – in-chief-

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