We would therefore ask your Chamber to take the matter up again.
We remain, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
(signed) Thomas Kuold, Secretary,
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Enclosure 4.
Colonial Secretary to Secretary,
Chamber of Commerce.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
N1762
Hong Kong
18th December 1873.
Hongkong, Kiulow, & Macao Steamboat Co. Ltd.
(Signed) Butterfield Swire
Agents, China Navigation Co.
The Secretary,
Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce,
directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant and of its enclosures,
and in reply thereto to state for the information of your Committee that the Governor regrets his inability to recommend the suggested alterations of the law during the currency of the present opium farm, but that upon its termination it is His Excellency's intention to endeavour to amend the law in the sense devised.