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référant

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lettre de

(signed) Lion Dejardin

Evolozure 3

164

The Colonial Secretary to the Consul for France.

Copy.

N111.

Sir,

Colonial Secretary's Office,

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Nongkong, & abonary, 1885.

I am directed by it's Excettenry

the Governor to active

acke owledge

the recsipt

ur live letter of the 2.2 instant;

of your

and to inform you that the Government

of this Colony has been legally advind

that it has no

• power to interfere

in this

matter in the way suggested by you;',

and that

a

Proclamation against the

aww should not be issued

exportation of arms

without explicit instructions from

Her

Majesty's Governouent.

Leon Dejardin, Esque

Consul for

France

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