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certified copy of the Crowns de The Right Reverend Bishop Raimondé to Governor

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Lot 50. We need not mention

we have made Hongkong the be Quarter of the Catholic Minis in China; large capitals hav been invested in the Colony by R.C. Mission, and it would be quite disadvantageaus both the F. C. of Propaganda and the English Government wer to place eur funds elsewhere. fore we strongly urge

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this will cause at your earlied convenience the S. C. of Propage to be placed in Hongkong in a legal position, and to put a end to the very disagreable f

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REGP 19 JUL 84)

Roman Catholic Mission-house,

Hong Kong, 274 February, 1884.

Please Your Excellency,

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I trust Your Excellency will

for the liberty Stake in laying

the following statements before Your Excellerey's kind consideration.

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That the Roman Catholic Mission in

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of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Corne, has possessed the lot 1:50 in this Colony for nearly forty years.

The lease does not necution

any particular object for which the ground

should be used, but is constructed in the

His Excellency Sir George Bowen, G.O.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong

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