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& previous part of this letter.

I have re

(Signed) Ceril C. Smith,

Registrar Tenerali

(June Copy) Mandria Colonial Sueritury

<--C

Copy)

the

Memor

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proposal of the Registrar benerd

that a Chinese Custom House should be

the possessions

established within

AM

one

of

of the British Crovon is so preposterous that the Undaniques do not think & reccesary to record any opinion upon it beyoud

expression of surprice that the Registrar General should make such a suggestion involving as it does lop of Liquity to the Brown, and constituting a direct attack upon independence of the Government of this Colony.

With reference to the larger

question as to whether the Revenne