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Lordships

despatch Wr. 45 of the 4th of March last, to00 myself

the honor of submitting a Copy of a hasty themorendam which I drew up, on the 13th of last month, for communication to Hwang and Mealing, and through

them to the Imperial Commissioner Reging;

Your Lordship with see, that this memorandum embraces the perplexing question of jurisdiction over the [hinere who permanently reside on the Soland of Hongkong,

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