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to you
your
statement that it is
not the intention of the Secretary
of State
to submit this Ordinance for Her Majesty's decision until a Report
on the subject is received from Sir John Bowring, I am to request that you will inform Lord
Russell that Sir John Bowring
has transmitted to this office
an Ordinance bearing the same
Title as the one
above mentioned
and
which has been passed by him
with the advice of the Legislative
Council of Hongkong for Her Majesty's
Subjects in China.
I am directed to enclose a
copy of
that Ordinance and am
at the same time to request that
you will inform Lord John Russell
that it has been approved on the advice of the Law Officers of
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