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As the document only reached
me a
few
hours
before
the mail
closed, I had not time to make
2.
Any comments upon it, as already explained to your hardship.
I would now make the following observations with
regard to the subject matter of the Petition.
3. As regards the complaint.
forced through
that the Bill was
the Council in an unconstitutional
manner, I have to refer your
Lordship to
my despatch
You
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I thank dufficiently shews that there is no real ground
for
for such complaint.
To the
remarks contained in that
despatch I would only add
that the Bill was
"
published
the
which.
in the "China Mail 30th of April, the day on Stick the Bill was introduced, and in the "Daily Press" of the let of Mag. The Bill was not
read a second time
second time until the
It's of May.
If.
The principal, I may
almost say the only argument
against the Bill advanced
in the Petition.
is that it
throws an immense number
of Chinese ont of employment
for