CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
Ĉ 8.201 27072
23 JUL 07
Government House,
Hongkong, 27th June, 1907.
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I have the honour to submit for Your Lordship's consideration the question of whether the services of the gentlemen who sat on the Commission which recently enquired into the administration of the Sanitary Laws and the existence of corruption in the Sanitary Department, and whose report was forwarded to Your Lordship in my Confidential Despatch of the 29th ultimo, should be recognised in a more special manner than by the usual formal letter of thanks which was sent to each of the Commissioners by this Government on the receipt of their report.
2. The Commissioners sat for 10 months and devoted an immense amount of time and labour to their work, which, in so far as it related to the enquiry into the existence of corruption, was rendered exceedingly difficult and tedious owing to the reluctance of
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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ONFIDEN XI A L.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
Ĉ 8.201 27072
23 JUL 07
Government House,
Hongkong, 27th. June, 1907.
You 25975
I have the honour to submit for
Your Lordship's consideration the question of whether the
services of the gentlemen who sat on the Commission which
recently enquired into the administration of the Sanitary
Laws and the existence of corruption in the Sanitary De-
-partment, and whose report was forwarded to Your Lordship
in my Confidential Despatch of the 29th. ultimo, should be
recognised in a more special manner than by the usual form-
-al letter of thanks which was sent to each of the Com-
-missioners by this Government on the receipt of their
Aug.
report.
2.
The Commissioners sat for 10
months and devoted an immense amount of time and labour
to their work, which, in so far as it related to the
enquiry into the existence of corruption, was rendered
exceedingly difficult and tedious owing to the reluctance
of
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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&C.
&C...
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