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and which

no one is will.

ing to pay for him.

This

man was

landed

here penniless from the Messageries Maritimes steam ship" "Laos, the master of which would probably have been proceeded against- under section 22 of the

Vagrancy

Ordinance but

des

for the receipt of your patch under acknowledg-

ment.

4.

I should be glad

to hear that, with the explan ation of the Attorney General

the case as

and the facts of the related in the last para- graph before you,

no chan is deemed necessary in

ge

far

as

the existing law which, so I am aware, meets opposition from

community

with no

the mercantile con

ot an

of Hongkong and is in no way likely to inflict injury

on

British commer.

ce or seamen.

to

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