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Executive
Letter to President of the Corneil Bond/18
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My Lord,
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Victoria, Hongkong,
16th May, 1848.
I have the honor to bring to the
notice of Your Lordship that Mr Johnston, Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
in China was nominated to the Executive
Council of this Colony on the 26th of June
duly
1846, and was
seat as a
member
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on
sworn in and took his
th
the 29th of the
Jame
month. She Jehu Davis in his Despatch
No 85 of that year reported this appointment, and Your Lordship replied thereto in Despatch Nr. 32 of the 6th October, 1846; but no Warrant having yet been forwarded to this Government for Mr. Johnston as member of the Executive Council, that gentleman, is
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
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