CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5] — Page 150

Interest accruing was

Calculated at 4 per cent, and while the Return is correct the figure in the Dispatch is not so.

5. In reference to the balance, which includes the interest on $450,689.58, there is now placed on deposit in the

Oriental Bank $40,000 at 4 percent per annum;

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank $42,285 at 4 percent;

Chartered Mercantile Bank $30,000 at 5 percent.

$412,285...

This leaves $38,408.22 to meet the current expenses which have received Your Lordship's sanction, and which will be kept at the Bank with the unavailible deposits belonging to the Government.

I have the honour to be,

My Lords,

Your Lordships' most obedient,

Humble Servant

R. G. Macdonnell

Governor

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Hongkong.

1879 (?) -

8th April, 1872.

Governor

Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell,

K.C.M.G., etc.

The Right Honourable

The Earl of Kimberley.

Special Fund Account. Forwards Return shewing the state of up to 31st March, 1872.

I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "accrving" to "accruing", "balma" to "balance", "acposit" to "deposit", "abt" to "at", "cul" to "at", "muavailable" to "unavailible", "deprits" to "deposits", "bovenment" to "Government", "hour is oi" to "honour to be", "matobedient" to "most obedient", "Redes femmes ches" to "R. G.", "adgraver" to "Governor", "S979-" to "1879 (?) -", "TEM. S." to "K.C.M.G.", "Sare" to "Earl", "up to" to "up to 31st March"). 2. Fixed spacing issues and hyphenation artifacts. 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks. 5. Formatted the text using HTML with

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