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questions raised in these various Papers

were

the

waforchinality three monther before Uber-

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are ad

follows:-

jot. The Merchants at Hong Kong allege

Min Ordinance.

imposing

that

local ratio and taxes was

illegal. On what ground this opinion resto

they

do not explains nor case

I rijective. The

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also maintains that it was "unconstitutional

which I enflore

means that it is not his accord

with the principles of the English Constitutions because Ratio for the inferovement of Fores

levied not

by

But his

England

of Parliament but under Bys

Laws of Municipal Corporations. The

Att htt

of

corarse is that the English Conshbulions is not and cannot be in force is Mung kay

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To the

Establishment of the Manniaffel for tat for the