1518.
Six,
Colonial Secretary's Office;
Hongkong, 6th April, 1886.
I am directed by the Officer Administering the Government to invite you to act on a Board consisting of the gentlemen named in the margin, with yourself as Chairman, to consider and report on the growth and present position of the Triad Society in this Colony, and to consider the best means of dealing with the abuses to which the action of its members is alleged to give rise.
Major General Gordon
A. G. Mitchell, Esqre Actg Police Magistrate
I. H. Stewart Lockhart, Esqre
Dr Ho Kai, J. P.
Mei Yick, Esq. J. P.
U. S. Un, Esq. J.P.
M. M. Deane, Esqre
Captain Superintendent of Police
His Excellency will be much obliged if the Board will meet at an early date.
I have &c.
Sd. Frederick Stewart
Actg Colonial Secretary.