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Vessels Clearing from Consular Ports.
I am, with great truth
Sept 7
reply,
and regard,
Sir,
will
your most obedient
humble servant
(signed) Granville
Secretary of State for the
Colonies,
and in transmitting to
you
a
copy of
his
I have to request that you
issue
such
instructions to Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China
as will ensure
that the provisions of the
Imperial Act and of the Hongkong
Ordinance No. 8 of 1871 are strictly
adhered to
so far as they
are applicable to Chinese Passenger
Vessels