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intiuated in
your letter, but that he has succeeded to another appointeerut elsewheres
The Committee also understand that a
not, as
British Commission hav urt, au yet, been despatched
for the purpose of assisting in detemining
av Abdo
the boundaries of Jonquire, understood
to be the cave.
of.
connection with this eubject, I
desired by the Committee to state that, having
bythe
regard to the important consideratione which
on the deliberation
canut fail to arise upon camol
I fail
he future
of the Commission in relation to the
Commercial interests of Hongkong,
which will,
in all probability, be affected by the result of
those deliberations in a a greater degree
those
of any
than
other British community in
the Far East, they
would venture to suggest,
for the favourable concideration - of this Eexcellency
the Soverver, that, when the time arrives
for the despatch of such a Commission, the
Chamber should have the option of
appointing a representative to accompany
it specially
commissioned to watch over
the mercantile interesto
of this Blony
I have re
(Signed) R Ryrie
Vice-
Chuirnen
for