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private partics, and to do this without the primity or sanction of the Govemment. 2. The nerepity for considering such a from the Acting Attomey question
arobe
General, at the instance of Counsel employed by the Fortuguese bonoul, filing a himinal Information against the Editor of the
China Mail,
ome
of the local papers, for
libel on the Governor
a
and Public Authorities.
at Macao- in connection with
om
alleged
the conduct of
compt proceedings Emigration from that Sext. 3. I had
provectings
no
ow
Knowledge whatever of those
the part of the Attomey
General ixupt what I might have gathered
v
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from the proceedings in Regina & Saint as
ស
reported eccezionally in the Public faunals.
Nevertheless I had all along felt that in
the peculiar position which this Govemment occupied in reference to that of Mancus
and uloc locking
the
subject of Emiquation, and whac
to the
on
conespondence which had from time to time praped between the two govemments
more
the subject, it might have been convenient had the Acting Attomey General
objection
first ascertained that there was no on the part of this govemment to the
course
which he
proposed to follow 4. Apart from the abstract question whether w right to lodge such informations at the request of a Foreign Gavemment las or does not reside in the Attorney General and in him alone Your
this bolony and in
of
Grace will
perhaps
aque
with
me
in