CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 680

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No.161426/C/117.

And address,

bat toTM

not to any person by name,

"The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S,W,1,

Sir,

CO

73736

FOREIGN OFFICE.

603 1

S.W.1.

December 29 1919.

2

With reference to the Colonial Office letter No.66922/

Smarts 1919 of the 6th instant, I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch which has been received from His Majesty's Acting Consul

at Saigon, in which he requests that he may receive by way

of remuneration a commission on the amount of rice purchased

by him on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong.

2. In a circular despatch dated March 1st, 1916, the

Secretary of State, in view of the fact that Consular

Officers were making large disbursements on behalf of Depart-

ments of His Majesty's Government which were not contemplated

when the instructions in Chapter IX, Section X(d) of the

Consular Instructions were framed, laid it down that sanc-

tion could not be given to the charge of commission of two

The Under-Secretary of State,

and/

Colonial Office, S.W.1.

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