CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 329

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through the Crown Agents at the

rate of 12/2 to the dollar, and

instincting

that in

future

livre the

of the Goverer of Hongtong

remittances of the

are to be made only

at the market

this Government appointed before 19th

Je

ebruary, 1876, and the exceptional

amount of this portionlar remittance ivos due to the fact

that it re

" represented

besides

one

half of a

month's sa

salary

rate.

I desire in the first place

to explain with regard to the draft in question, that I have ebriethy

lunited

my

remittance to the

proportion (viz : 1/2) of the salary

which

wao

permitted to be remitted.

by my

may

Predecessor

and which

still be remitted by Offices of

the

one

Me

half of the hall salary due to

on arrival

for the

the period of

my passage from England: In respect of future

3.

10 of course abide

reusittances, I shall of

strictly by Your Lordship's

instructions; but I need scarcely

Day

that, involving

the

they do, at

present rate of exchange (3) to

the

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