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Inclosure M2 in
29th January 1856.
letter of the 25th January. in reply to Messrs Russell For
From the Colonial Secretary
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Sir
Government offices, Victoria, Hong Kong, 29th January 1856
I have the honor to address
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Your Excellency under the following circumstances. I was, some time ago, advised by the Attorney General that since the new Passengers Act - 1849, Vict. - Cap: 119, repeated the old act, and exempted this Colony from its operation by clause 95, no legal provision existed for the regulation of the Passenger Traffic from Hong Kong.
I notified this opinion accordingly to the Public Officers concerned on the 11th ultimo.
His Excellency
R. G. Macdonnell, Esquire, C. B.,
Governor of South Australia