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: Gong Rook sum, a graduate by purchase and relative of the fong establishment in the same street, prays that the Viceroy may be pleased to take steps similar to the foregoing.
For the reply which he noted on these petitions, the Viceroy stated that he had written to the military Adjutant, requesting him to communicate with the English Officials in Penang, that able officers may be deputed to arrest the subject, and effect his immediate rendition back to Canton for trial and punishment.
A further petition presented by Lam Gut-in, a Provincial graduate, was received from all the graduates, requesting that he has written for the rendition of the criminals in question. Now that he has received the present petitions, he would issue instructions to the Provincial judge to direct the twai-shin Magistrate to arrest, without fail and within a prescribed time, Song Mang-Kong and the rest, and have them tried and examined according to law. As to Yong Stap-by...