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In the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.

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TREASURY CHAMBERS,

28th July 1910.

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The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's

Treasury have had before Them Mr. Cox's letter of the 24tly March last (6765/1910) and yours of the 18th May (12483/1910) further respecting the amount of the contribution from Imperial funds towards the loss of

revenue caused to the Colony of Hong Kong by the new

opium policy.

My Lords regret to observe from the former letter that the Earl of Crewe apparently regarded the

contribution of £9,000 sanctioned by Treasury letter of the 5th March last for the year 1910 as inadequate, and

that in the absence of an assurance that the amount would

be increased to one half the loss on the opium revenue

in 1911 and 1912, he feared that he could not "recommend

"the Colonial Govement to regard with favour so

"incomplete an arrangement".

They note however from the despatch enclosed

with be later letter, that the Governor trusts "that

"the Legislative Council and the Colony as a whole my "regard this i.9, the grant for 1910, as a liberal

"interpretation of the promise" of His Majesty's Govemment

to make a substantial contribution to the loss.

The sum of £9,000 fixed by Their Lordships

after very careful consideration wue regarded by Then

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

also

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