COPY
No.8.
Confidential.
Sir,
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ENCLOSURE 2.
REC [REL 15 SEP 7
Colonial Secretary's Office.
Hong-Kong, 19th July, 1897.
512
With reference to the letter handed to you by me on Saturday the 17th instant, interdicting you from the exercise of the powers and functions of your office as First Clerk in the Registrar General's Office, I am now directed by His Excellency the Governor to forward for your information a copy of the charges made against you accompanied by a statement that has been made by Ip Pak Shau disclosing the grounds of your intended suspension from office and I am to call upon you to state in writing before Saturday next any grounds upon which you may rely to exculpate yourself from such charges.
In the event of your failing to furnish me with the statement above required, the question of your suspension will be brought before the Executive Council and you will be informed of the time when the matter will be brought forward and will be furnished with the names of the witnesses whom it is intended to examine before the Council in support of the charges.
Mr. C. Osmund.
I have, &c.,
(Sgd.) J.H. Stewart Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary.