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Letter from the Superintendenc

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OCT22 1847

My Lord,

Fictoria, Hongkong,

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9th August, 1847.

As it has appeared necessary to the

Executive Council to suspend Mr William Purrant, a Clerk under the Land. Office, -pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's -- : Government, I deem it right to forward the case of that persone in detail

On the 3rd ultimo, the enclosed letter

was received

charges of a

· from Mr. Parrant, implying

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serious nature against two Chinese in Government employ, and in an indirect;

and intermediate manner

conversing imputations against the Colonial Secretary, though with

the avowal of complete disbelief in the latter.

I lost no time in directing

the

The Right Honorable, The Earl Grey,

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