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the Governor to now enable them to obviate the grave

difficulties now pressing upon them in the management

of the College, to place the whole work on a more substan-

tial and permanent basis, and to realize long-cherished

hopes for the future of the Institution, by recommending

to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the

Colonies the endowment of the College, with an annual

grant of $2,500 from the public funds to be expended in

hon raria to the Lecturers as described in an earlier

part of this letter.

I have etc.,

(Sa.) John C. Thomson,

Honorary Secretary, Hongkong College of Medicine

for Chinese.