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My Lord,
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2 August 299
I am directed
by
Mr Secretary Chamberlain to
acknowledge the receipt of your
letter
of the 22nd ult enclosing
a copy of a petition addressed to
the S of S by certain Chinese
residents in the
Colony of Hongkong relative to the
conditions which they are required
to fulfil if they desire protection
as British subjects, in the event
of their returning
2. I am
to inform you that