CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889 — Page 284

I

am now directed

by

the

to

Lord

Marquis of Salisbury to transmit

you, to be laid before. Knutsford, the accompanying papers apon the subject, from which His Lordship will perceive that the case appears to have received a somewhat different complexion in consequence) of the intervention of the other panties to the sust, namely, M. for: Jurado V6%.

I

am

accordingly to Enquinos

in

if the Colonial Office is possession of any in formation respecting the legal position of

thes

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the Corporation's Agency at Manila

under British or

British

Colonial Law, and of the

bearing thereon of the Hongkong Ordinance N°5 of 1866 or of other special or generals

any

Enactments.

In this connexion it might prove useful to Lord Salisbury

to know the reasons

why the Ordinance No 1 of 1872 of the Colony was disallowed by the Crown upon the advice

of the then Secretary of State, which Ordinance purported to extend the Corporation's sphere) of action to Manila. Lord Salisbung would also be glad to receive)

any