Sr. 58.
Financial,
the
Foo-Ape, at the Vice-Admiralty Sessions held 2 January 18.
convicted of Piracy
the evidence of the deformer
Extract of Minutes of Executive Council, granting free Pardon to 1 Chinese
on the 24th.
17 August, 1848.
Copy to Treasury 16 Nov 1848
Enclosure.
RECEIVED
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1848
178
Cor Victoria, Hong Kong,
28th August,
My Lord,
1848.
I do myself the honour
to transmit for your Lordship's information Copy of a Petition
address from
to
my
the Solicitors of this Colony, which
was
presented to
me
by
C. - I. —
the
Deputation of that Body which waited on me with it on 16th Instant. I informed
the Deputation that I had the power to take off any of the existing Taxes, and that the Revenues of
the Colony by this means met the Civil
The Right Honourable,
The Earl Grey's