To His Excellency
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Sir George William Der Vany, K. b. M. G.
Governor and Wommander in thief of the bolony of
Fonghong and its Dependencier and tree ditmiral--
of the zerme.
Sherreth,
The humble Petition of the Undersigned.
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Your Petitioners are rezident berchants leivil Engineer Architects Purveyors and Rolicitors carrying burinere at Victoria in the bolony of stongkong areland owners to a large extent in the said loolony.
Your Petitioners attention having been drawn to the Government Notification N$ 655 in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 3th December 1887 beg leave to bring the following fact to your Excellency's notice.
Throke of your
Petitioners who are Aberchauk
Fadere
or Landormers beg to enbunt to your Expellency that in nearly every instance where in the part they have had occasion to communicate with the Government it. har been the custom to make Ruch communications
through their legal advicers with the views of Recuring the
phrictly formal. Carrying out of Zuch Communications in a and legal
manner resulting on a Raving of their time and acting at a Rafe quard for themselves or their conclituents as the case may be and that if your Excellency refused to receive commmmcations from the Rolicitors for and on behalf of their clients the General Lublic will be put to very great inconvenience and Ruffer great love of time and expence as itruil recervitate their first entmitting every letter which
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