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I have the hover to be,
With the highest respect,
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Your most obedient,
Humble servant, John Beeming
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Is the Right Honble Lort Star hy Sorting of State for the Colonies.
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Hongtong
21 July 1858.
I have the honour to addresé
your
Lordship on the Bubzies of an Ardinance passed the Legistative Council of this Colony on the trifth instant intituled "On Ordinance for practitioners in Sur - I being one of the Attornie's Solicitors Proctors
and Notaries affected thereby. I have been requested by the Hongting Lam Society, Composed of all the Attornies and
Solicitors in the
Colony, to address your Lordship on their behalf, but
your Lordship will see by the Gazette containing
as
inasmuch. the above Ordinance,
that an attempt has been made to throw a doubt upon any authority to represent the Hongtrong Saw Society, notwiths
notwithstanding the Government here possesses full evidence of my Commission, I shall take the liberty of representing myself only, and your Lordships may fully rely. the accuracy of my Statements..
First - I protest against the Ordinance being unconstitutional, unjust, unequal in the operation,
unnecessary.
Secondly
©I assert that it is not what was ustice by the memorial of the Mercantile Community Thirdly.
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and
for
II maintain that that memoriae max mo reasonable or intelligent refleation of the motured opinion of any part of the community possessing competent information
the subject upon they Solicited the interference of the Legislature
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