Mr. Ellis
in consequence of colonial financial pressure Despatch. No. E.B. Lytton will probably include it in intimating his decision to the Governor
We have the honour to be Sir Your Obedient Humble servants The Board. Roderick 21/3.
Mr. Anson will prepare the requisite draft to this effect. Will you be so good as to include 276.
5 Hong Kong and amongst the despatches the one to which this report relates and also the Governor's dispatch No 17 of the 25th of January.
IF 24 March
REP
VED 17 AUG 1859.
Emigration
Lir Emigration office 16th August 1859.
No. 74.
I have to acknowledge your letter of 4th instant, enclosing a letter from Mr. J. Bowring, in vindication of the decision taken not to allow the "Royal George" to clear with Chinese emigrants for British Guiana from Macao, but to compel her to come for clearance to Hongkong.
2. The circumstances of the case are recapitulated in the Report from this Board of 8th of Herman Merivale, CB
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