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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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GO. 537.

it may be amended. You see, Mr Li, unless gentlemen of

your standing coms and tell us what their views of the

Ordinance are, how can we possibly report to the

Governor, and met your suggestion. We want you to come

and tell us where the law presses hardly upon the

Chinese, then we can report to the Governor, and he can

consider how he can meet your views, and how we can

modify the Ordinance and help you.

I think you might tell him, Mr Bull,

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Commission, are only the mouthpieces of the Governor,

and that any questions that are put to him are as if they were put by the Governor dirsot, and his answers

go to the Governor.

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I will say what I know myself, what I have seen

myself.

Please do. That is what we want to hear.

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I will first speak about the small matters. One subject

is the limewashing. I sea that the limewashing twiós

in the year is the cause of the expenditure of the

people's money.

Ask him to say that again, Mr Ball.

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Although it looks as if it were but a small matter, it is the cause of the expeniture of the people's money,

and burdens the people.

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Tell him not to use the book language so much. (continued). It wastes the people's money, and is a burden to them. Although it is only twice a year, it really results in not only being done twice, because Bome who go to the Inspector and get him to look at it, say he says it is not proper, and it must be done again. Shops in Hongkong which pay a rental of $1000, for them it is really a very unimportant matter to

spend $8 or $9 upon limewashing, but those in Sai Ying Pun, such an in Third Street and High Street, when they

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