HongKong
4387
314 October, 1867.
Governer
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
3823 17864. HK
17438
191
Answer to Duke of Buckingham's
Query in margin of draft 12664 in Hong Kong
Duke of Buckingham's
Ovv
to
His Grace,
and Chandos
the Duke of Buckingham
Lamma Island-
Concludes correspondence with Sir Rutherford Alcock
Opinion of Sir Rutherford
-
Duke of Buckingham
that extension of ... is not feasible. It appears to be conceded on all
... anything that send copy of this despatch to the ... Office.
Sir R Macdonnelly comment ...
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hand) that Lamma Island in ...
jurisdiction, that great ...
I fear, with you, ...
on banassment Wight aute in ...
the laser ...
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I still think on tout afrimpten f fenisdite con Lamma "the right canon- wo though it any lead to [illegible] ageing; & if found then untenable, to soma, for gorunet yone on the agers, we bother cost your
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Adderly. But if the entrap
It is not
very
Easy
to
give effect to ... suggestion
in
official form, because
it comes to this that the
Lord of a British
Colony
gradually to appropriate
for us
that which we
admit or are
not our
informed is
property. Moreover there is this inconvenience that if he attempts to Exercise jurisdiction some refractory (say you siste that jurisdiction Yanken) person, re & trins it in
A
court
of
Law, the Court may give
judgment against it on
the
ground
that the
Island is not British,