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State.
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to you, and through you to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, the expression of
my deep sense of gratitude for the
hovor you jointly wished to confer upon me;
same time I
and at the
Her
humbly trust, that Majesty's Government will be pleased (to repeat here the confident hope held out by Sir John Davis in his letter of the 14th March, 1855, to
&
my address), "to raise muy
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of Colonial Secretary of Hongkong
Whilst
on this subject,
I would beg leave to state, that I took the baths of allegiance to Her most Graxious Majesty The Queen before the Executive Council of this Colony (sten composed of Sir John Davis, General D'Aquilar, and Colonel (aine), the 31th Desember, 1846,
on
on my appointment to the Office of Clerk of the Councils.