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Enclosure No. 5 to Despatch No./22 of the

12th. March, 1903.

C.

Colonial Secretarys Office,

Hongkong, 2nd. April, 1902.

Sir,

I am directed by His Excellency the

Officer Administering the Government to request you to be

good enough to say when a reply may be expected to my letter

No. 586 of the 14th. ultimo, and to the letter to which it

refers, respecting the rate of exchange for the payment of

pensions out of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund to persons

residing in a Gold-using Country.

I have etc., (Sd.) J. H. Stewart Lockhart,

Colonial Secretary.

The Honourable

C. P. Chater, C.M.G.