of any law prohibiting Foreign Vessels from hoisting the Colours of any other nation when in British waters.
I have &c.
(Signed) Thomas Grey.
Govr No. 184-7 Rovenlere 1868.5 Copy of C. C. deef No. 184 - Adu: inf= 10 Nov 1865.
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I am directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 24th instant, inclosing a copy of a correspondence which has passed between your Department and the Law Officers of the Crown with regard to the Ordinance passed by the Governor of Hong Kong with a view to the suppression of piracy :
and, in reply, I am to acquaint you, for the information of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, that
The Under Secretary of State.
Colonial Office.