CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7] — Page 601

that

your predecessor's despatch N: 24 of the 3rd of September,

1886, was

referred to the

then Acting Attorney General who was at the time engaged

in drafting

the Ordinance

for the registration and ___ "preservation of copies of Books printed in Honghong, and that for

some reason,

which cannot now be .

ascertained owing

to the

despatch with the Acting Attorney General's minute

thereon

Mo

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thereon having been mislaid

apparently in his office, the suggestion that copies of

copies of the Books registered should be sent direct to the British Museum, was not adopted.

I have

given instructions that in future

copies of books shall be. forwarded direct to the British Museum, with

A

note upon the label to the effect that the parcel is transmitted in accordance

with