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nights wherefor, we do, by these presents strictly commend and charge all and every of our said Merchants and others, our subjects coming to, trading or residing at Hong Kong as aforesaid to take due notice of this our commission and yield obedience thereto; and we do also pray and desire Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Her Ministers and other Officers, whom it may concern in any way, to receive and admit him, the said Michisabro Hayashi, as our Vice Consul at Hong Kong as aforesaid and upon his reasonable requests to do him that justice and afford him that assistance which he may require.
Given at our Court at Tokyo the twentieth day, third month two thousand five hundred and thirty-three years after the Coronation of the Emperor Jimmu years Meiji...
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Signed by His Majesty's Command,
Ragenor Uyeno,
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs,
The Minister (absent)
Keshiro for the Acting Colonial Secretary