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C

due to myself as well as to you

letter officially to

now

in

by

arrival

announce to you, my

Hong Kong in the capacity of 1Bishop of Victoria .

cand

Denclose for your perusal a copy of the Letter the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Clergype Puity in Hongkong; South China and Japan on my behalf. This lakes the place of the Queer's Letters Patent which, as

you know, have been

withdrawn!.

I beg you at the same

time to understand that by assuming

the title of Bishop

of Victoria and signing myself by the name of the See', I lay

any legal powers

claim to

no

position. I take the title and so sign myself in deference le the wishes of the. Archbishop who thinks it important that

in this and all the Coloniali Bishoprics which have lost their letters patent the new Bishop " should be placed as much as "possible in the exact position

- his predecessor, in order that

of his

when the local Courts are called

"to decide any question of property

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they may have this guide to substitute the new Bishop