It is hard to afford good reasons for discontinuing - Mr. would I world and that "it is easy to come to a statement or minute to percount the apparent posture from being taken as an accepted frown or standing uncontested precedent-" for so long unreversed it is binding in the Colony, and no statement or minute can do away with it. If any legal point that arose as doubtful were entertained after powers of the Acting Attorney General such doubts might be resolved by Registration & that it will be further desirable in future as it is to all acting officers.
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Temple 22 June - 1869,
My Lord,
We are honoured with your Lordship's Letter of Directions signified in Mr. Hammond's Letter of the other Instant; stating that he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to us, the accompanying Letter from the Colonial Office, in which an account is given of the proceedings which have taken place at Hong Kong in the case of the Queen against Sant, in which an information was filed by the Attorney General against Act Paint for publication of a Libel against Senhor Amaral, a former Governor of Macao, and afterwards Minister of Marine; and for the publication of certain other matters.
The Colonial Office requests that we will take the same into consideration, and furnish them with our opinion upon the case and as to the course to be pursued by H.M. Govt.
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