Circumstance being reported to you, as I understand, by the Acting Chief Clerk, Bowlby,
(Enclosure)
The
&
Weithius,
Harbor Master.
True Copy
Coulthard, Secretary.
(Copy No. 190)
Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th March 1856.
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In acknowledging Your Excellency's reply of the 20th to mine of the 19th instant, I beg to inform Your Excellency,
that in my opinion, confirmed by that of the Honorable The Attorney General, "there is no authority here to whom I could, under the Colonial Passengers Act, and the circumstances of this case, delegate authority to seize or detain the Ship 'Levant', until at least after an appeal for this purpose to Your Excellency.
That appeal I have the honor to make, and I am informed
His Excellency
Rear Admiral
Sir James Stirling,
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Be
Be.