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Any further communication on this subject should

be addressed to-

THE ASSISTANT SECRETAR7,

MARINE DEPARTMENT,

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL GARDENS, S.W.

And the following liter and number should be quoted in the commeation, and marked plainly on the outside of the caelope, viz. :---

MHHL

Gov

11210

RECEIVED

Board of Trade,

(Marine Department,)

12609

Cony all but

der,

Prist

8 AUG

1879

29 Whitehall Gardens, S.W.,

7th August, 1879.

Dream Ships.

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I am directed by the Board of Trade to

acknowledge

the receipt of your letter ofthe rych

ultimo, forwarding, by direction of the decretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong enclosing a draft ordmance to provide for the Suwey and Regulation of Steam Ships, and requesting

the

to be favored with this Round's views on Bill, and especially whether it should be extended to Goreign

Steam Ships.

In reply, I am to point out for the

information of Sir Michael Thicks Beach

that this Ordinance unlike the British The Under Secretary

of Stare

Colonial office

Merchant