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section of the Houghong

801858,

Ordinance no's of 10

for refusing employment for the "Messageries

Company

with regard

to the

Maritimes

instructions which Lord

Derby proposes to addus to the Governor of Hrugkong as to the bearing of this section of the

of the Mungking Ordinance, I am to request

that

- you

will state to

Ais

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His Lordship that dord Grauville is not prepared on the information at present

him to express before him a

as to the application opinion

an

of the section to the particular case which

gave

proceeding

rise to the

the Magistrate,

before the

but His dendship presumes that the decision. was subject to appeal. It appears however to His 2ndstiche theat a refusal of Chinese