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Sir,
Attorney General's Office,
Hong Kong. August,
1856.
I have the honor to address you, merely in my capacity of Legislative Councillor, and to inform you, for His Excellency's serious consideration, of the circumstances which make it imperative upon me to ask leave to retire from that office, unless the Council doors are thrown open to the public on the one hand, unless, on the other, the late Clutes of the Honorable W. J. Mercer, Esq: Colonial Secretary...