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sentence at hase
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of
the Report he
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signed as Chairman of the Committee
"In Search last bois Excellency
"the Governor through the Colonial Secretary informed Ses Forabjie
longer be allowed
"that he could no longer be allowed to sell spirituous liquors in the "City Hall during theatrical "performances without a licence,
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"and by so doing deprived those "who resort to the theatre of
"convenience that had been allowed to the public since November 184"
Your Lordship will
2.
see from the inclosed minutes and the late Mr. Pierals opinion that it would be illegal for me to give permission
Will go
next mail.
to the City Hall Committee &
their agent
in this matter, Iss Drabipe to sell
spirituous liquors in the City Hall without
3.
a licence
I had previously refused a
similar application from some persons in Kowloon
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4. Your Lordship will observe that in making it a matter of complaint against the Governor in his report, W. Laurick avoided publishing the official correspondence which would have shown that
I had
no legal power whatever to
grant the application: but this is quite consistent with the way in
which the legal aspects of
the
City
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