In the event of any further proceedings being taken by the Plaintiff, in this case,
you will
follow the course I have
indicated.
If the Plaintiff should appear again in Court in the Colony you will take the necessary steps for obtaining from them the Costs for which they are liable
or retain to
Shevet
Sir
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Hongkong, 18th May, 1842.
I have the honor to request that
you will lay before His Excellency the Governor the following detail of facts.
On 25th August 1846 I was officiating as Chief Magistrate of Hongkong.
On the
evening of that day, after my Office
had been closed, I received from the
Colonial Secretary a note
ordering me, in
the name of Sir John Davis the then Governor,
to arrest three Portuguese felons, said to have absconded
from Macao and taken refuge here. The
note enclosed a second letter from Sir John Davis
urging immediate seizure, and an official letter from the Governor of Macao, a copy of which will be found in enclosure 1. I issued a warrant, in consequence,
and ... of the three,
The Honorable Major H. Caine,
Colonial Secretary