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Communications addressed to the Imperial Government by public bodies or
individuals in a Co
by
Colony shall pass
throughs the Governor, who is bound
to tranenict them with his
observations, and wittiout
innecessary delay.
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It is added:
This rule requiring trauermission of correspondence with the Secretary of state through the Governor, is based on the strongest grounds of "public convenience, in order that
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all communications ?
Verified
iications may be duly
as well wo
reported upon,
"before they reach the Secretary of State, It extends, therefore, to communications relating
to Public Affairs as well
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as the concerns of the writer; tothion " of all Public Functionaries of whatever " rank, and to those from public "bodies."
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my assumption of ther Government I found theat it had
beew for some time past the practice
the Chamber of Commerce at Hong Kong to Correspond directlys
of
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without the intervention, or indeed the knowledge of the Governor, or of any other Colorical autturity, with the British Minister at Peking, on
matters affecting the trade and m shipping of this Colony, its relations with China, and the arrangement
of many questions cloitte the Clunbel
Government.