arl
within Your Excellency's jurisdiction; and it consists with your Petitioner's knowledge that such contrabarid goods have been, still, and that further supplies are about to be sold by MD. P. Townsend and others of this place =
made
ad
Your Petitioner having arrangements for the supply of copyright Editions of English books, on the faith that he will receive such protection the Law affords, humbly prays Your -Excellency to tako such steps as may necessary for putting a stop to a traffic directly opposed to the provisions of the
above
named statute, and
highly
detrimental to the interests of your
Petitioner
And your
Ketoria, Hongkong July, 1845.
be
Petitioner will wer pray. (Signed) High Mackay .
true copy. Maine
Officiating Colonial heretary.
In 100: Kong King
23
Opinion of the Attorney General.)
However desirable that literary right should receive full protection here, I woul Entertain considerable difficulty in advising the local loverment to adopt legal, proceedings in furtherance of the ._ accompanying Memorial:
I much as difficully reists
chras
in laying legal evidence before the magistrates as to the
as to the proprietorship of the
Copyright under the 17 Sect : 5&6 kc: 45.- as there is no Custour or Excise officer in the Colorry to carry out the act- and from the impossibility of distributing the ponally between the excise officer and the proprietor
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The 25 sect : 5 & 6 Vic : 47 which facilitates the working of the act in England, thews
plainly the difficulty
sxisting
.