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Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to-- The Under Secretary of State, War Office,

Pall Mall,

London, S.W.,

and the following number quoted.

40248/323

16201

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War Office,

C.C.

19701

REC?

REGE 8 OCT 91

Pall Mall, S.W.

7th October 1891.

Sir,

I am directed by the Secretary of State

for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the

7th ultimo, and to inform you that, for convenience of Imperial Account, and also because it is very undesirable

to deal differently with the contribution of the various Colonies, he is not prepared to urge the Treasury to agree

that the contribution payable by Hong Kong should be paid at the Station at the current (Market) rate of

Exchange.

Mr Secretary Stanhope therefore concurs

in the proposal made by Lord Knutsford that a dispatch should be sent to the Officer administering the Government

at Hong Kong in the terms suggested in the second para-

graph of your letter under reply.

The Under Secretary of State

for the Colonies.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant.

Rasplethepose