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House Comm Admiralt

agent

Board of

Forel

Office

to

to acquaint you that I think it best to leave it to your discretion according your own well considered opinion, and to your conviction of what is required by a due regard to British interests in China, to gracit, or to withhold by special act in the manner pointed out by the Queens Advocate, permission to heitish subjects to act as Comeuls of Foreign Powers in China.

Jalso leave to your decision the quation of permitting or prohibiting, by the same authority, the employment by British Subjects of Danish, levedish, or other Foreign befels upon the bogages adverted to by you, entertaining, as I do, a full confidence, that in this, as in will adopt the preceding matter, you no uccasure of prohibition without having first entirely satisfied yourself of its unferious accepity in the present state of our relations with China.

with perceive that the

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Lueen's

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Queen's Advocate is of opinion that, within the Colony of Hongkong, an exequatur from 4. th. Goot is indispensable to any person acting as consul for Foreign State.

a

To the granting of such permifion there does not affear to me, primâfacier

to be

any objection,

objection, but I prefer to leave this point also undecided until I shall have received your opinion upon it.

you will lose no their in reporting to me the course which you may

adopt with respect to these matters.

Jamer

(Regard)

Aberdeen