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caused to be referred to The Lords of Council for the Committee of Privy Trade for Their Lordships opinion, on receipt of which Lord Stanley caused the whole correspondence to be submitted to the Proper Law Officers of The Crown. I am also to transmit to you, to be laid before The Duke of Buckingham despatch above and Chandos the referred to from Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, as well as the Letter from the Board of Trade, and I am to state to you for the information of His Grace, that the question raised by the Governor of HongKong, of the Vice-Roy of Twokang, in regard to the erection of the Opium tax stations, would seem to be founded upon a misapprehension on the part of the Governor to the true intent of the new Regulations. It would appear from the despatch of the Vice Roy to Wr Consul Robertson, dated February 28, and forming One of ...