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England, your petitioner received a notice that His Excellency
the Governor had directed proceedings to be taken against him
in respect of a breach of the Colonial Regulations alleged to
have been committed by your petitioner, in that he had, from
the 1st October 1895 to the "month of April 1897, anɑ on -----
"subsequent dates", engaged in trade and connected himself with
the commercial undertaking known as "the Hongkong Butchery" in
Hongkong; and your petitioner was called upon to state in
writing any grounds upon which he relied to exculpate himself,
5. Your petitioner thereupon wrote to the Colonial Secretary
of the Colony a letter of which a copy is hereunto annaxed.
6. The statements contained in the said letter are true and
correct in every detail.
7. Your petitioner subsequently appeared before a Committee
of the Executive Council, and was examined concerning the sald
allegations, and your petitioner then and there confirmed the
statements made by him in the said latter of which a copy is
hereunto annexed.
8. The man John Tatam referred to in the said letter, and
upon whose initiative the said proceedings were instituted, diâ
not appear before the Committee of the Executive Council upon
the said occasion, nor did he appear before the said Committee
upon a subsequent occasion when required so to uo by the said
Committee in accordance with a request of your petitioner.
9. The examination of your petitioner by the Bid Committee
was confined to the said charges made against your petitioner of having connected himself with the said commercial undertaking
over fourteen years ago.
10.
On the 24th November 1909 your petitioner was informed by
the Colonial Secretary that His Excellency the Governor in