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He gave his earnest consideration and he would propose certain rules defining the nature of the communication which he would submit to and settle with me.

He remarked that in framing them he must bear in mind that in no possible way should the territorial rights or jurisdiction of the Imperial Government, referred to by me, be prejudiced; it was simply a matter of arrangement for mutual convenience irrespective of such reservations. His Excellency replied that that cleared up the doubts he had, and he saw nothing in any way of coming to an understanding.

As soon as this is arrived at, I will communicate the results for Your Excellency's approval.

I do not quite comprehend the motive of Fr. A. G. MacDonnell bringing this matter before Lord Granville. I beg to enclose extracts from a despatch I lately received from the Colonial Secretary writing in the name of the Governor, from which Your Excellency will see that communication does exist between the Colonial and Kowloong Chinese Authorities and, to my knowledge, has ever existed; nor have I interfered with it; consequently, I do not see that any special arrangement is required, but of course Your Excellency...

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He gave his earnest consideration and he would propose certain rules defining the nature of the communication which he would submit to and settle with me. He remarked that in framing them he must bear in mind that in no possible way should the territorial rights or jurisdiction of the Imperial Government, referred to by me, be prejudiced; it was simply a matter of arrangement for mutual convenience irrespective of such reservations. His Excellency replied that that cleared up the doubts he had, and he saw nothing in any way of coming to an understanding. As soon as this is arrived at, I will communicate the results for Your Excellency's approval. I do not quite comprehend the motive of Fr. A. G. MacDonnell bringing this matter before Lord Granville. I beg to enclose extracts from a despatch I lately received from the Colonial Secretary writing in the name of the Governor, from which Your Excellency will see that communication does exist between the Colonial and Kowloong Chinese Authorities and, to my knowledge, has ever existed; nor have I interfered with it; consequently, I do not see that any special arrangement is required, but of course Your Excellency... Page 110 appears to be contaminated with non-relevant text "قع کتے کیسے" which seems out of context and is likely an OCR error. is removed as per rule 12 and 16, the sentence is re-adjusted as per rule 1 and 4. The original text is re-formatted into proper paragraphs as per rule 5, and minor corrections were made for spelling and spacing as per rules 2 and 3. The file reference is not present in this text, so rule 10 is not applicable. The page numbering information "Page 110" is kept as it is, though not exactly in the original format due to the absence of the exact original six lines. The text is formatted in HTML as per the output requirement.
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huve his earnest Consideration and he would propose certain rules defining the nature of the Communication which he would

submit to and settle with me.

remarked that in

that in framing

them

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possible way

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in the

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this is arrived ut I will communicaté

the results for Your Excellency's approod.

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Fr. A. G. Mac Ronnell.

bringing this matter before Ford Branville. I beg to enclose extracts from

despatch I lately received from Colonial Secretary writing

name

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of the Governor from which Tour Peccellency will see that

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the Cedonial and Howloong Chinese Authorities and to my knowledge

has

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interfered with it, consequently I do not see that any special arrangement is required, but of

of course your

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