free to come and go, not liable to any duty
that they
are
as aliens,
other duty than
British Subjects have to pay,
that they labor under no restrictions or disadvantages either as to person or
person or property, and that
by a local Ordinance
(M.2 of 1853), they
can even
hold and
buy or sell or
possess
Lands
within the Colony of Hongkong.-
I have the honour to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's,
Most
Obedient Servant
William T. Mercer