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complying, I should only be doing what the Acting Registrar General. (Mr. Lockhart) had already done. 9 gathered incidentally however, from Mr Foster that Mr. Le Jak-chaung would have been glad, if I would give the coolies and brat-people assurance that they would not be called on by the Government to work for the French, M. Foster had been asked to get
to do this, but he
me
an
very properly refused to be the bearer of any such message.
Finding that Mr. Lookhart
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convening a meeting of native justices of the Peace and naturalized British subjects, I arranged with
him
him that Mr. Li Jak Cheung and his friends should meet them in the Council Chamber, Government Offices, at 3 pm; and Mr. Foster informed Mr. Le Jak cheong of the arrangement.
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eft 3 o'clock, the native
Justices arrived, and were invited
express their views on
to
situation.
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the
They thought that the... -Officer Administering the Government, should issue another Proclamation,
and, when asked in what terms,
of
they repeated in effect the terms His Excellency's Proclamation previously issued. They were informed of this;
and
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