the practice be at once discontinued.
I have,
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(Signed)
W. T. Mercer, Colonial Secretary,
(In copy)
Tochures
Colonial Secretary.
Copy
70812.
314
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, Hong Kong,
Gentlemen,
5th November 1856.
I am directed to convey to you the desire of His Excellency The Governor that in the present state of hostility with the Government of the Kwang Tung Province The following gentlemen do attend, viz.
J. Rickett, Esquire
A. L. Maclean Esq.
G. Lyall, Esquire.
I. C. Leslie, Esquire
R. C. Antrobus, Esquire
A. Fletcher, Esquire.
J. D. Gill, Esquire.
Mr. Sammond
F. Witt, Esquire.
S. Gray, Esquire.
R. J. Walters, Esquire.
J. Scarth, Esquire.