8.
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(Crfory)
expenses of
the Police shower be born by the
ye 290.
public
and not by them.
Yours to
(signed) John Smale,
AG
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Colonial Secretan's Officer,
Heongkong, 20th March, 1863.
am directed to acknowledge your
letter of
18th instant and to state that though
written under an evident mis apprehension it
shall certainly be forwarded, since
you
desire it,
I
to the Colonial office.
am instructed however to remark as
follows:
1. In submitting the case
for the-
opinion of
the Law officers
all the documento
in connection with it that had reached this
office
were enclosed in accordance with ordinary
The Hemorable
The Attorney General.
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