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Sir C. C. Smith to Lord Knutsford. 
Strai t s S ettlem ents . 
No. 172. Government House, Singapore, 
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30th April, 1888. 
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My Lord, 
I have the hohour to report to your Lordship that, 
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with the concurrence* of the Finance Committee of the 
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Legislative Council, I have arranged for the publication 
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of a work.on the Flora of the Straits Settlements and 
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Malay Peninsula. It will be brought^under the Editorship 
of Dr. King, Superintendent of the Royal Botanical Gardens 
Calcutta, with the assistance of Sir Joseph Hooker. 
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2. The cost of bringing out the work is estimated at 
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£1550. one thousand five hundred and fifty pounds, which will be 
spread over 4 or 5 years. Of this sum the Colony will pay 
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one-half and the remainder will be paid by Perak and 
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Selangor in the proportion of 2/3 and l/3 respectively. 
3. I propose to include in the estimates for next 
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year and in each following year for three or four years, 
the sum of one thousand dollars, which will be funded to 
meet the charges as they occur. 
