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this

Despatch. As the same

trine

you will, by another

Proclamation, apprise them

that the

Acto

of

the

British Parliament for the

abolition of the Slave Trade and for the abolition

Slavery extend by their

Jown proper force and

auctiority to Hong Kong,

will be enforced by all Her Majesty's Officers,

Civil

surtitled

and Military, there.

The Ordinance No. 2

"

An Ordinance to

"

regulate

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"regulate the printing of

"Books and Papers, and the

Keeping of printing Presses

"within the Coloney of Hong Kong.

indirectly establishes the

Freedom of

the Press at

Hong Trong subject to the

observance

regulations.

of certani

In the absence

of any report as to the

motives

and the

of

this

consequences

anticipated from it, I have

not-

been able

to subrout

to

The Queen any

advice.

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