Endorsed on 7.6.5351.
27 June 1866
E.&C. 3.
July 3.12
2 July 1866
b272 Hong Kong
Received June 30 1866
343
Abrid Clarke
Foreign Office
June 29.1866
OR US
Colonial Office
I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will inform the Secretary, Cardwell the Law Officer that the opinion of the Crown has been taken with respect to the questions raised in your letter of the 13th instant, as to the terms of the Proclamation of the Governor of Hong Kong
7. Rogers