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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Victoria, Hongkong,
16th October, 1857.
I cannot allow this oppor-
_tunity to pass without, thus. Officially tendering is your Excellency my dutiful acknow ledgments for the justin You
have done me,
to
perform Secretary
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me
by appointing mo
the
duties of Colonial
&
beretan during the Comporny absence of the Honorable Major Cair
Your Excelling whose high sense of justice is one of the
This Excellency
Sir George Bonham, H. C. B,
Governor and Commander in chief,
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de
R.