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hundred and Twenty dollars per amnum), which was established

for

the benefit of the commerce

not of this Colony only, but of Great Britain, and of the other European nations, throughout the wide expanse of the China

Seas.

4.

Reporting in Pesember

1884 on the Finances

Colony

in a

of

-the

paper which was

presented to the Legislative.

Sessional Papers, HongKong, Dee? 1884 to June 1885,

Conneil, the Colonial Secretary Mythage 97.

and Auditor General (Mr. Maroh)

wrote

$3000

wrote as

follows:-

"I

see no other reduction

that can be conveniently effected.

now; but both the Treasurer and

with

" the Surveyor-General agree me in thinking it only fair that the Imperial Government should be asked to bear half the Annual cost of the

Observatory, say about Three "Thousand dollare per This institution is quite

useful to Imperial

as to

Local interests, and its

as

construction