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suffering from bubonic plague

may be permitted to leave the

Colony for Canton and its

adjacent districts be revived

and to come again into force;

and that if necessary for this

purpose, Your Excellency may

be pleased to communicate the

substance of this Petition by

wire to the Right Honourable

The Secretary of State for the

Colonies and to obtain his

authority and Sanction.

Your Petitioners further pray

that if the aforesaid regulations

be definitely held to be in

direct contravention of the

spirit and letter of Chapter I

We c

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of the Venice Convention 1897

and could not therefore be

permitted in any way to come

again into force, then may

} Your Excellency be pleased to

consider the advisibility of

withdrawing Hong Kong from the

Convention.

And your Petitioners will as

in duty bound, ever pray &c.

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Hong Kong the

day of June

1901.

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(Sigired) Fung Wa Chuen

and others.