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I understood the word to have been objected to by Your Excellency's first letter of this morning. I have to profess knowledge of the rule to which your Excellency refers, and no disposition to evade it. But I am at a loss to know what to do. I observe that your Excellency's second letter, like your first, is not marked "private", although it reminds me of the rule in question.
I am &c,
(Signed) J. Chisholm Anstey.
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary's Office.
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Victoria, Hong Kong,
23rd August 1856.
The Opinion you have given that the decision of the Privy Council in the case of Hill v. Bigge shows that an Acting Governor is amenable to all process and to subpoena amongst the rest has induced
I. Chisholm Anstey Esq., Attorney General