CONFIDENTIAL.
Courtesy Office Copy.
120 Hong Kong, 7th August 1863.
Foreign Office,
August 7th 1863.
120.
Barnett, Agents.
18 Aug.
17 Aug.
for 18 Aug 109.
And 8 Dec.
77.
17.
85.
5440.
July 24th.
With reference to your Letters of the 12th and 13th of June, and to Mr. Hammond's Letter of the 26th of June, I am directed by Earl Russell to transmit to you, to be laid before The Duke of Newcastle, Copies of two Reports from the Law Officers of the Crown on the questions therein referred.
The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
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