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taken in At som for

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that

adeflect in the other hand

of the hindwaix de jour

The letter of the miniler of the 20 of the 1857 w. dudtlap pwhilit back the oath ofthe Execution formiter recept ehun parented by laws. But as the

hartier

alment uninual

I were dufundi to maker it

D.

Just

Hrunn it denues ceruideator

whither the axumpange Party Utum 2nd le mornin with a mind to auntain what

rathi (not being regard by by law)

the discentesined

Key 12. follows the fate of the nut.

Kus

MS. Gairdner

Will you

hi good enough

I consider the printed when in reference 4. Si P. Rogan's last suggestion. Is? hrefer

to dealing if I can see my way to it

with the matter as a

whol

ate mi

Ch 12 Sept- 166

:

5901 Hong Kong and Colonies General

386

Hvory Hory - Sot. Comp. 18copil 166

Cornwallers

Oaths taken by Governors or

5901

I have assumed

that the last Paragraphe

xon 3901 Hong Kong - of your Minute

Brem I seems the the can

on the whole

1. That the oath, d allyjeand are talen

to defend from.

a - The Itatutory fam he Protestants. pass.

6. Statutory from pe Roman Cath" pay.

form.

cas

meant to supersede

the others.

I am

afraid.

that I have misled

you by describing the

return laid before.

10 Parliament as

showing

< Short fom p. 15.17. the battis administered

por Protestant

d. Old Obsolete fim,

pp. 13. 14

(or duik)

2. obsilite from ser

R. Cath? p.19.

to Office holders and

"others in the different

"Colonies," whereas the

all then shwild be redir secotion was merely for Hamm

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