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D. Hokai to Acting Colonial Secretary.
22/09/87
RE: Public Health Ordinance
18, Bank Buildings, Hong Kong, September 26th, 1887.
I am requested by numerous leading Chinese merchants and residents in this Colony to inform His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government that a petition to the Secretary of State against the Public Health Ordinance which has just passed through the Legislative Council, is being prepared, and that as the said petition is of considerable length and will be most
Honourable F. Stewart, LCD, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary
extensively