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In refly I
Directes
by the Secretary of State
to requaint you that
by the third article of
the treaty of peace botan Great Britain and thing, signed at Nankin
the 29th of August, 1862,
His Imagest the Emperon
of China ceded to H. M.
the Lucem of Great Britan
the Island of Hong Kong, to be possessed in
perpetuity by H. Britannic Majesty, her heirs and successons, and to be
governed by suctions
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and regulations as Her bungest should su
to direct
This treaty
at Hong Kong
was
fit
ratified
on the 26th
June, 1843; and the first
Governor of Hong Kong
"having been
appoints by letters Patent of the 5th April
in the same
am
year
I are further to
by the Hong
state that
Kary
onde 22 15 of
1844, 49, it was exac that " the Law of England should be expancased in full force in the color of
Hong Kong, except where
the same should be
inapplicable is the
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