that
your predecessor's despatch N: 24 of the 3rd of September,
1886, was
referred to the
then Acting Attorney General who was at the time engaged
in drafting
the Ordinance
for the registration and ___ "preservation of copies of Books printed in Honghong, and that for
some reason,
which cannot now be .
ascertained owing
to the
despatch with the Acting Attorney General's minute
thereon
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thereon having been mislaid
apparently in his office, the suggestion that copies of
copies of the Books registered should be sent direct to the British Museum, was not adopted.
I have
given instructions that in future
copies of books shall be. forwarded direct to the British Museum, with
A
note upon the label to the effect that the parcel is transmitted in accordance
with