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great damages to the P. C. Propaganda and put them

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ment, the works of the "Cathedral being urgent, and being impossible to stop t We applied therefore to the local legislature for to empower the P. C. of Pr paganda to mortgage to sell the said Lot: 50; but the Attorney General decls that the lacked Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith aggregate of pers having no legal chanding and before the law not existe that nothing therefore sho from

Encorporating could be of any verlue and it it was necessary to refer matter for the instructions Your Lordship before legisla in the Colony . H . C . Sir George Bowen the present Governer ry much interested on our half, but the Government it obliged to follow the advice the Attorney General. We hav

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the assurance that H. E. the Governer is well disposed to recommend the matter to the immediate and favourable__ consideration of your Lordship. Therefore we earnestly apply

chat Right Hon. Sir, praying Lordship Kindly authorize the legislature of Hongkong to pass a of the kind desired.

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Besides Lot 50, we have several other properties in Hong Kong fo

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Prefects and Vecars Apostolic and their successors. If we could have a Bill com prehending all the different properties it would do better: but, at any rate, the most urgent is the present Lot

150. The longer the present state of things lost, the greater will be the damages inflicted on the P. C. of Propaganda.

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We have already informed the S.C. of Propaganda in Rome

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