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to him by the deceased. On the 26th of February, the petitioner received the Viceroy's minute recorded on his petition, which he perused with respectful attention. It contained the following paragraph..
ما مالک of the following Gong A-tapi-ky alias Ortende "your former petition states that he 'had been previously arrested in Hongkong', while now it is averred 'that this criminal has made his escape to Peking', or viser to find out whether the place in question is 'British territory', and how far it is from Hongkong, it will be necessary to wait until I communicate with the Consul at Qu... with a view to having ... ing. enquiries made to effect the apprehension of the offences"
On this point petitioner would beg to remark that Yong a-tap-by, the person who fired the shot by which his grandfather lost his life and Yong a-to-pay, the criminal arrested in ... who assisted in injuring his uncle with a stick are persons with different surnames. Yong ... bec ... the former his grandfather stood in the relation of a distant uncle within the prescribed degrees of ..., while he was the batter's senior by generations. That Yong a-tap-by has made ...