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Straits Settlements 
No:- 79 
Downing Street 
6th. Aoril 190Z 
Sir, 
With reference to the correspondence noted in the 
C-ov.No.r72.30th 
April,1888 
Sec.of State No 
156 31st MayI888 
margin, I have the honour to transmit to you a 
copy of a letter* from the Director of the Aoyal 
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ofanic Gardens,Sew, forwarding a claim from Sir 
Sew . 3')th ? : Iarch 
George ling for £77- 13-9 the amount of out -of- 
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pocket expenses incurred in connection with the 
preparation of a Flora of the Tlalay Peninsula. 
The Crown Agents have been instructed to pay 
Sir G. Sing this amount from Straits Settlements 
Funds, and I have to request you to arrange for 
the repayment of the money to the Colony from the 
funded amount referred to in your predecessor* s 
despatch of 30th A pril 1888, if the fund has not 
been exhausted. 
I have etc 
sd. Alfred Lyttelton 
Governor 
Sir J. Anderson , K . C • TI • Q ., 
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