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439

(Crfory)

expenses of

the Police shower be born by the

ye 290.

public

and not by them.

Yours to

(signed) John Smale,

AG

Siv

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Colonial Secretan's Officer,

Heongkong, 20th March, 1863.

am directed to acknowledge your

letter of

18th instant and to state that though

written under an evident mis apprehension it

shall certainly be forwarded, since

you

desire it,

I

to the Colonial office.

am instructed however to remark as

follows:

1. In submitting the case

for the-

opinion of

the Law officers

all the documento

in connection with it that had reached this

office

were enclosed in accordance with ordinary

The Hemorable

The Attorney General.

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