acquires the functionaries of Her Majesty's Government to exercise their authority with gentlemanly

And

demeanour

becoming

I have

de,

! Signed) W. J.

March, Colonial Secretary

True Copy

Colonial Secretary

Copy.

So

United States Consulate,

J

in answer

you inform

255

Hong Kong, July 16th 1866.

yan

letter of yesterday

to mine of the 8th instant,

me that I have asserted

that by railway The Governor in a

British Colony, temporarily to abrogate

British Law,

and to suspend

a

jurisdiction which it is his duty to

maintain intact," and further, that it is impossible for his Excellency to diverge from the

Course which his directions

declare to him "I fear that I have not expressed myself

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