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As the document only reached

me a

few

hours

before

the mail

closed, I had not time to make

2.

Any comments upon it, as already explained to your hardship.

I would now make the following observations with

regard to the subject matter of the Petition.

3. As regards the complaint.

forced through

that the Bill was

the Council in an unconstitutional

manner, I have to refer your

Lordship to

my despatch

You

14720

No: 188 of the 16th altoms, Siche

I thank dufficiently shews that there is no real ground

for

for such complaint.

To the

remarks contained in that

despatch I would only add

that the Bill was

"

published

the

which.

in the "China Mail 30th of April, the day on Stick the Bill was introduced, and in the "Daily Press" of the let of Mag. The Bill was not

read a second time

second time until the

It's of May.

If.

The principal, I may

almost say the only argument

against the Bill advanced

in the Petition.

is that it

throws an immense number

of Chinese ont of employment

for