of this Country
We
are
are of course, unable fully to appreciate the political and diplomatic difficulties with which these questions are surrounded, but, if it were practicable We should consider that the best arrangement would be that those of the Chinese Inhabitants who chose voluntarily to remain in the Island after its cession to the English should thenceforth be considered and treated as subject to English law, and to the laws which the Crown of England may think right to declare for the protection of the persons and property of Inhabitants of the Island.
The Island of Hong Kong having been conquered by Her Majesty's Forces and ceded to Her Majesty in full sovereignty by the Emperor of China are apprehend that Her Majesty may make what laws she pleases for the rule of all persons resident within the Island, and that no parliamentary enactment would be required for carrying such Laws into Execution.
Shaw Lefevre
(Signed) I. Dodson
J. Pollock
Not Follett