Coming to Branch of Trade, respecting a supply
Where necessary papers.
2
5) May
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Applying for
a.
further
allotment of official
Numbers
then Port
the Merchant Shipping
of Hongkong, under
Act 1854.
Received
The Rt. Honble
H. Labouchere, M. P.
Governor Sir J. Bowring
13th March, 1858.
Victoria, Hongkong,
Entered
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1856 MAY
RELO
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With reference to your
letter of the 18th of April.
Mil. 1855. Some abridged by
Her Majesty's Colonial Office to
transmit to you
the Copy
Annexed 30 May/56. of a letter Dispatch from
the
Governor of Hong Kong
applying for a further Allotment of
one hundred
Numbers to the Port of Victoria under Merchant Shipping Act of 1854. and I am to request that you will move the Lords of the Committee of Trade
Council for Trade to cause