ceptable to the petitioners, and I therefore beg to submit them for your favourable consider.
ation.
I have the honour to be,
dir,
Your Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Within Robing on
To
cnclosure!.
Hongkong
The Right Renerable
14th 1600 18978
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Joseph Chamberlain C.P.M.P. Secretiory of State for the Colemies.
The humble Petition of the Daughters of Charity of the Congregation of Canna
Respectfully shewith:
1.
Your
Pelitioners have been established in Hong Kong since 1860 and have opened in Hong Kong and care
carrying
("k
in the whole
10 sivols
over
and are now
for Girls, accommalating 700 children, tive Orphanages
which there are at all
young women,
which provide for 250 girls and Home Foundling
A:
Times
over
An
115 infants, Chinese, a Magdalen
AVOIN Ezzy
Aasylum giving thetter to 50" nese two Hespitals for Portuguese and Chinese
and a home afferding it old women (Chiou)
On
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mmodation t
over
2. Your Petitioners have their Magdalen
Asylum District of Manchai and have for
inland Fot 349 in the Castion
than 20
yours past, been in cocupcition apparently without title, of a piece of ground invidiality ad viming that let to the East, and immoctiality to the south of intand Lot 199 which
was
as formerly