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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company.
Hongkong, 23rd December, 1864,
Sir,
I have the honor to lay before His Excellency the Governor an application from the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company that His Excellency will be pleased to confer upon this Bank the privilege of a charter, or Act of Incorporation to enable it to carry out more fully the objects for which it has been established.
I enclose the prospectus of the "Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Company" – and such other information as...
Hongkong, 29. In J. Robinson
To The Rt Honble E. Cardwell.
No. 199.
Received.
Relative to the Incorporation of the "Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Association,
Honorable M. T. Mercer, Esq., Colonial Secretary. Hongkong