ARULDA
Me. 660
Acting Colonial Secretary to Chairman of Chamber of Commerce.
Colonial Secretary's Office
Hongkong, 3rd June, 1863
I am directed to reply to your letter of yesterday and to state that His Excellency the Acting Governor has every wish to meet the reasonable views of the Chamber of Commerce but is unable to set aside the orders of the Home Government and declines to discuss the expediency of these orders which you call in question.
I. I. Mackenzie, Esqr