Enclosure 1.
the Rt. Hon. Walter Long,
His Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for the Colonies.
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The Humble Petition of Tai Yan Steam
Launch Co.,of Victoria in the Colony
of Hong Kong Steam Launch Proprietors
and of Lee Kee Steam Launch Co., Tai
Wing Steam Launch Co., Sam Wo Steam
Launch Co.,Hop Yick Steam Launch Co.,
Weing Hing Steam Launch Co.,1 Wing Shun
Steam Launch Co., Tak Kee, Kwong Fook
Steam Launch Co.,Wai Kee, Tung Kee
Steam Launch Co.,Wing Hing Steam
Launch Co., Chang Put Kee and Tak On
Steam Launch Co.,being all parties
lately engaged in carrying on the
Taumati and Sanshuipo Ferry Services
in the Harbour of Victoria in the
Colony of Hong Kong.
HE WE TH as follows :-
Your Petitioners the Tai Yan Steam Launch Company were originator of organized Ferry Services in the Harbour of Fictoria plying between Victoria and Yaumati and Samshuipo. Flom time to time your other Petitioners, who set on foot Stallar services combined, with your Petitioners the Tai Yan
Cam Launch Company in the services originated by them, is enlarging such services and the resources of the Frides carrying them on and greatly increasing the facili-
as for public traffic across Hong Kong Harbour.
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