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as to the feeling of the Chinese Community

the subject, and to M. Russell:

on

proficiency in the Chinize language.

2. M. Murrell has as

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Lordship may have gathered from my

· 25zpalther hold hi the Margin performed Confidentit

The duters of Negratiar Ceneral Enice my

return to this Colony in the dame___

Manuhr as

they had brew perforurd

hi the past before a part

of

these dutro

had been transferred to the Chinese-

Secretary - I assumed that this was

hi

conformity

with the direction's gih

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by Your Lordship and that the only Depp. 24 of

question in abeyance was

the

Expediency

of irriving a public Notification in the Government Gazette Explaining that

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hi all ordinary cases prtitions frond Chrise to the Government should.

be addressed in the first mislance to the Registrar General, as the ordniary official organ of

Communication behoren the Government

And the Chuisce Community -

No such notification

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has yet been issued and though Its publication may be expederit, I cannot say that it is absolutely recessary on the greater part op prtitions from the Chrise Community are now prestated personally

to Mr.

Russell who reads them homself in

original and after Explanations prolu

by the bearers there of disposes

on the

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