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unless accommodation can be provided by the Government.

(7) Cablegrams stationery and other petty items

of expenditure.

Further sums will be placed to Mr. Bruce's credit

from time to time.

Mr. Bruce will keep clear and accurate accounts and

will obtain and produce vouchers for each payment.

All communications to Mr. Bruce and Mr. Valpy from the Consulting Engineers will be directed (as arranged with Mr. Bruce) to the care of The Chartered Bank of

India Australia and China at Hong-Kong and Mr. Bruce

must arrange with that firm for the forwarding of all

such communications without delay to himself and Mr.

Valpy as the case may be.

The registered address of the Consulting Engineers is "Consilium, London" and on arrival at Hong-Kong Mr. Bruce

will forthwith register his telegraphic address at the

Eastern Telegraph Company's office there which will be done

free of charge and he will cable this address at once to the

Consulting Engineers thus reporting his safe arrival in the

Colony and he must arrange with the Eastern Telegraph Com-

pany that all telegrams are to be forwarded to him immed-

iately on receipt.

Mr. Bruce is to use the, "via Eastern Telegraphic

Social Code and furnish himself with a sufficient number of

copies before leaving England but copies of the code are always available at the Eastern Telegraph Company's offices.

Mr. Bruce will add on pages 311 to 320 of his copies of

the code a considerable number of sentences which have been

prepared and are to be seen in manuscript in the Consulting Engineers copy of the code which may become useful during the progress of the survey.

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