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C.O.
26624
RECE
Reof 16 AUG 00
PERUVIAN LEGATION,
689
August 8th 1900.
My Lord:-
In reply to Your Excellency's note of the
23rd July, I have the honour to inform Your Excellen-
cy that I have received a telegram from my Govern-
ment, stating that Senor Don Felipe Mesa exercises
jurisdiction in matters of discipline over the Con-
sulates of the Republic in Asia, and that Senor Cesar
Monteiro has been appointed Consul at Hongkonɛ, and
his commission dispatched.
The Peruvian Government also express the
desire that Her Majesty's Goverment will give tele-
graphic instructions which they believe necessary
to the Governor of Hongkong, to arrange that the ex-
Consul Ir. J. Grant Smith shall hand over the archives
of the Consulate.
arquess of Salisbury, K.G.,
&c., &c., &c.,
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