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concluded between Her Majesty and the Emperor of Japan, and of the steps to be taken by those persons who wish to obtain the
permissions necessary to enable them to enter the Ports of Nagasaki and
Hakodadi.
I beg respectfully to state to your Lordship that a
Official Copy of the Treaty referred to, the provisions of which I am instructed to publish, has been communicated to this Office, and I have thought it desirable to confine my action to republication in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the only official notice I can discover as emanating
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from Her Majesty's Government, namely, that in the London Gazette of 15 May and which is
referred to in the Communication
from the Board of Trade. I have the honour to enclose a copy of the Hongkong Gazette which contains the said
notice.
I ought perhaps to mention that on my return from the North in November last to Hongkong in the same month, on communicating with the Naval Commander-in-Chief I was informed by the Earl of Clarendon that instructions had been sent to him by the Lords of the Admiralty
to convey me to Japan when the