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the existing laws on

the subject afford

sufficient protection.

2. I aut paspased top of this Bill な

being dropped in the

her and

absence of further

argument yet

more conviving at

than those raised by the

Both at present

поровогод

before me

me, I

not pre-

banglad

pared to sauction the abandonment of the proposed Ordinance; and Ishould be glad,

of possible, to ascertain

the views of

of some

of the

leading Chinese

347

Po

Colony and of the P% Leung kuck the in

regard to the Bill.

3. The draft Ordinance

embodies the suggestion

尽

made by Russell in

his Report of 18th July 1883

(pp. 8 and 9), which

were

by

apparently not

opposed by the leading Chinese,

and were

→X supported by yourself.

что

Executive Corneil

(as reported in your

desf.no.

189 of 13th

Aug. 1883) and were

approved by my Predecessor

I am not t

заак ай possess