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Colonial Secretary's Office
Victoria, Hong Kong, 24 October 1866.
I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of 26 t chastart received this honing to regards the propovals in your letter of As 94th Instant to which you
having received no
row allude
reply. I am directed to observe that His Excellency presumes this to refer to your application for Captain Cuper Official Report in Ly Ating's case, which Report already forms Enclosure in a despatch to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, and cannot in accordance with the rules of the service, be furnished to
yourself.
I have the honor to be,
Fir
Your most obedient Servent
Signed) to I Mercer
Colonial Laterf
AR Hudson Sq
(The Off)
3
signed
MR Audion!