CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 304

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MINUTE

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1861 NOV

SMT Elliot

SurfRogers 15 M.C.Fortescue Dubzof Neverasile

I am directs by the

Duke of Newcastle to acknowledge the receipt

of your letter of the 7th instant, in which

&

you

favor of

request fumenting with

official letter to

firstly

prove that the Island

by

was

ceded

of Hong Kong

China to Great Britin in absolute sovereignty

before the year 1859)

secondly, that in, and

and

previously to that year English Low prevailed

and

was

administered in

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