CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873 — Page 108

the 3th September 1844, a Minute was forwarded, in which their Lordships

a new Account " being

approved of.

to be

designated,

opened at all the Indian Presidencies,

Her Majesty's Colonial "Jovernment in China, for all transactions between the two Governments, distinct from

the expedition to China, the account

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those

of

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from the 10th September 1843

Accordingly,

numerous claims,

objected

precisely similar to those

mov

to by the Colonial Office, have been

ariade

the Treasurys

periodically receipt of the Annual Accounts from the Government of India, the last claim " having been rendered to the Treasury 7th November 1870, and no

objection has been raised to the repayment thereof.

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I am also directed to state,

the

for the information of Lord Kimberley,

that the charges in question

are noticed

in the Report from Bir Hercules Robinson, to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, dated Singapore the 20th

to Parliament

26th January

1864, presented

on the 4th June 1866, in.

which it is stated that "the total number * Page 20,

of

Convicts at present distributed amongst Haragraph

the

the three bettlements is 3516. They are, ble to India, Cylon, chargeable

" in the following proportions_

"

367

Indian Convicts 3.055.

Cylon động trong

and, at plage

94.

and

trong trong

106

25 of the same Retern, in an Abstract of receipts and disbursements of the Straits Settlements, for 1842-63, the sumi due by the Imperial Government for the Naval Coal Depôt Establishment, is also given.

I am further

- further directed to state that the claim against the Cylon Government, in respect of Convicts from that Colony, has a already.

to

a

been admitted, in the enclosures

Letter from Mr Meade, dasted at the Colonial Office the 8th August 1871, to be chargeable to the Oylon Government.

ty's Colonial

After this explanation the Duke of Argyll cannot doubt but that the claim of this Office, against Her Majesty's Jovernment China, will be admitted, and I have to request that the above sum of £2.503. 18.10, may be paid to the credit

the Secretary off

State in Council of

of

India, at the Bank of England.

The Statement, Schedules, and

Vouchers

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