No 109 & 1850
Inclosure in Despatch
A110.
Legislative
Ordinance forwarded to
Messrs Wood for Report
280-12.
124 of 18:
1508. Gong Long
237
Victoria, HongKong,
26 December, 1850 –
"I have the honor to forward to
Lord
Your Lordship
an attested copy of
an
Ordinance, entitled "An Ordinance
for
Seamen
to prevent the Desertion
belonging to Foreign Ships and Vessels and which I hope will be found such as to enable your Lordship
to lay it before The Queen for Her Majesty's approval.
The necessity of
this ordinance
was brought to my notice by the United States' Consul and American Firm deeply interested in the American Trade of this Colony.
The Right Honorable,
The Earl Grey,
...
General relative to certain letter from the Post Master stating that the spirit of the Letter from ...styland, in the Colonial
improvements
Posts, is not applicable to
Hongkong.
24th December, 1850.