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Acting Attorney General to embody the substance of the recommendations in a draft Ordinance, which I have now prepared.

Enclosure 2 Draft Order.

province of Quang lung, from whence the facilities of crossing over to the Island of Hongkong are much greater than formerly. Steam-launches are now running between the Chinese city of Kowloon and Victoria all day long, and the passage takes little more than a quarter of an hour and costs only ten cents. Besides these launches there are abundant opportunities for crossing over in junks or sampans, and landing at other places than the city of Victoria.

I have the honour to submit for consideration together with an explanatory report from the Acting Attorney General.

Enclosure 3. 24 July 1886.

It must be remembered that the Government of Hong Kong has to make provision not only for dealing with the criminal classes resident in the Colony, but for those in the neighbouring province.

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Acting Attorney General to embody the substance of the recommendations in a draft Ordinance, which I have now prepared. Enclosure 2 Draft Order. province of Quang lung, from whence the facilities of crossing over to the Island of Hongkong are much greater than formerly. Steam-launches are now running between the Chinese city of Kowloon and Victoria all day long, and the passage takes little more than a quarter of an hour and costs only ten cents. Besides these launches there are abundant opportunities for crossing over in junks or sampans, and landing at other places than the city of Victoria. I have the honour to submit for consideration together with an explanatory report from the Acting Attorney General. Enclosure 3. 24 July 1886. It must be remembered that the Government of Hong Kong has to make provision not only for dealing with the criminal classes resident in the Colony, but for those in the neighbouring province. # Was the original text properly formatted with page numbers? The original text seems to be missing the typical "Page XX" markers. If they were present, they should be retained in the output, formatted as in the original scan. The output is already formatted according to the instructions, using HTML paragraphs. No further action is required for the given text, other than checking if "Page XX" markers were present in the original and should be included.
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Acting Attorney General to _ embody the substance recommendations in a of the Ordinance, which I have draft-free Enclosure 2 Draft Ordee. now 1087* province of Quang lung, from whence the facilities of crossing over to the Island of Hongkong are much greater than formerly. Steam- the honour to submit for consideration together with an _ explanatory report from the Acting Attorney General. 5 Enclosure 3. 84 July 1886. It must be remembered that the Government of HongKong has to make provision not not only for dealing with the criminal. classes resident in the Colony, those in the neighbouring but for province launches are now running between the Chinese city of Kowloon and Victoria all day long, and the- passage takes little more than a quarter of an hour and costs only ten cents. Besides these launches there are abundant. opportunities for crossing over in junks or sampans, and landing at other places than the city of Victoria
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Acting Attorney General to _

embody the substance

recommendations in a

of

the

Ordinance, which I have

draft-free

Enclosure 2 Draft Ordee.

now

1087*

province of Quang lung, from whence the facilities of crossing over to

the Island of Hongkong

are much

greater than

formerly.

Steam-

the honour to submit for consideration together with an _ explanatory report from the Acting Attorney General.

5

Enclosure 3. 84 July 1886.

It must be remembered

that the Government of HongKong

has to make

provision not

not only for dealing with the criminal.

classes resident in the Colony, those in the neighbouring

but for

province

launches are now running

between

the Chinese city of Kowloon and Victoria all day long, and the-

passage takes little more than a

quarter of

an

hour and costs

only ten cents. Besides these launches there are abundant.

opportunities for crossing over in

junks

or sampans, and landing at other places than the city of

Victoria

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