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DEus Gr à Ver Macao 15
de Jembro
de 1849.
Para
O Exmo Snr. Governador de Hongkong.
[Signed] F...
Maria Ferreira do Amaral:
Governo
(Translation)
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of
the Provincia
of Macao
Timor, and Soler.
General
Department.
No 56.
To
the Most Illustrious and
Most Excellent Sir,
Although during
the time of my Government, as well as that of my Predecessor,
neither by
any
of your
Excellency's
communications, as to the
conduct of yourself, have
doubts been raised
as to the right of the Courts of this Colony
to take
cognizance of offences committed therein by
British
subjects; nevertheless, I have thought it my duty to transmit to Your Excellency (as was before done by my Predecessor) the enclosed Copies of official Communications received by the Government from that of
Her Britannic Majesty's