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To His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The undersigned, Ignatius Borgazzi, Priest of the Seminary of Foreign Missions at Milan, and Missionary Apostolic in Kongshing;
Under the authority and direction of the Very Reverend Timoleo Raimondi, Superior of the Hong-Kong Mission;
beg leave respectfully to represent,
That in 1862, when the establishment in Hongkong of a House of Correction or Reformatory for Chinese boys was considered desirable, the aforesaid Raimondi, at that time Vice-Prefect of the Missions, being in Hongkong on business, made applications to the Colonial Secretary, in order to obtain assistance from