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that it should be pointed out to the Chamber of Commerce that the exemp-

tion allowed to certain Mail Steamers

are

only applies in cases where they running under time Contracts entered into before the coming into operation of that Ordinance and only for long

as those confract are in force.

I have re

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( P = ) J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Aching Colonial Secretary.

The Secretary,

Stong Long General Chamber of Commerce.

Copy.

Enclosure 2

67

Chamber of Commerce to Acting Colonial

Secretary .

Sir,

Hongkong General

Chamber of Commerce, 5th January, 1895.

am directed by my

Committer to acknowledge receipt of

our letter of

of 20th November last, N

your

2261, and I am to point out that the

Chamber in its letter to

you of the

20th August, not 27th August as quoted by you, did not ask that further exemptions from the provisions of the " Sunday Labour Ardinaries should be granted,

گرمی کے امیر کی۔

yar

*

indicate was the

reply of the Secretary of State to that letter, but that the provisions of that

Ordinance.