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(Signed) Indgere Joaquim de Faria Saldanha
Miguel Pereira Simões
José Bernardo Galhardo.
Manoel Ferreira.
True Copy)
Colonial Secretary.
Government
(Translation)
If the Province Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Sir,
The Government Council, having according to Law assumed charge of the Government of the Province, in
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consequence of the death of the Most Excellent Governor The Councillor João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, regret to report to
was attacked
regret to report to your Excellency
that yesterday evening at sunset this Excellency The Governor returning from his usual ride was in the middle of the Isthmus by a band of Chinese assassins who rushing on him unexpectedly, succeeded in throwing His Excellency off his Horse, and cruelly assassinated him; his Aide-de-camp
The Most Illustrious and Most Excellent,
Samuel George Bonham, Governor of Hongkong.
etc. etc.