22 conditions were carefully considered in Executive Council, and it is believed that they will completely prevent all further difficulties.
I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servants,
Enclosure 1,
"The Right Honourable
the Earl Granville
Knight Companion of the most noble
Order of the Garter.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for the Colonies.
The Humble Memorial of John Kam Tong (*44*) of Victoria in the
Colony of Hongkong, Merchant,
Sheweth,
Your Memorialist has for the past ten years carried on business at No. 14 Western Market, Victoria, Hongkong under the style or firm of Wing Lung Kee (±31432).
On the 5th November 1869, under the hand of Malcolm Struan Tonnochy, the then Acting Registrar General, a Licence was issued to Su Yikdim enabling him to carry on the business of a Poultry Dealer at the said No. 14 in the Western Market, and on the 26th October 1876, the name of your Memorialist was added to the License by the then Registrar General.
The business was conducted solely by your Memorialist both before and since adding his name to the License, and he has been well known to all the...