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be transacted, during the hot season in Hongkong and in the other tropic Colonies.
4. Under the circumstances thus
referred to, I trust that your Lordship will, as a general rule, and subject to the requirements of the public service and of health, extend the summer vacations of the Governors of Hongkong to two months; thus placing them on the same footing, in this respect, with the officers of Government
in
in the Colony.
I have the honor to be
obediently Lord
your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant
J. Bowring
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