ROPY.
Enclosure 7.
Sir,
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1, Des Voeux Roed,
Hongkong, 11th May, 1921.
Re New Stamp Duties Ordinence,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter under date the 7th instant conveying to me an expression of thanks from His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, in respect of my services as a member of the Committee appointed in the above connection and in acknowledging same I would ask you to inform His Excellency of my deep appreciation thereof.
I would also like to record the fact that by far the greater portion of the work in connection with the above Commission fell on the shoulders of the Honourable Mr. Kemp, Attorney General, without whose assistance the other members of the Committee would have found themselves faced with a far more difficult task than that which they had to actually undertake; for not only was the drafting of the Bill in itself e masterpiece of good work undertaken by the Attorney General, but in addition, he was responsible for the preparation of the whole of the documentary basis upon which the Committee's labours were founded, and compared with what he had to accomplish, the task of the Committee was indeed a small one.
The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
I have, &c.,
(Sd.) J. Scott Harston,