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Enclosure 8.
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Minute by the Acting Colonial Secretary;
Forwarded to the Hon'ble the Attorney General, with whom are the other papers in the case,
papers in the case of Frederick Stewart
Colonial Secretary's Office
Decbr 11th 1885.
Opinion of the Attorney General.
There is so much doubt about the real facts that it is almost impossible to say what the rights of the Government are.
The first question is, had Chi Kam-fong ever obtained a valid license for the law in question and what, I think, might be called a valid license would be a license granted to him alone by name or to him by name together with any other person. If he had such a licence then though he may have lost it and the other person therein may even be dead the Government should not turn him out. If he had no such license I think he may be ejected.
sd Edw. F. O'Malley
Jany 5th 1886.