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England, your petitioner received a notice that His Excellency

the Governor had directed proceedings to be taken against him

in respect of a breach of the Colonial Regulations alleged to

have been committed by your petitioner, in that he had, from

the 1st October 1895 to the "month of April 1897, anɑ on -----

"subsequent dates", engaged in trade and connected himself with

the commercial undertaking known as "the Hongkong Butchery" in

Hongkong; and your petitioner was called upon to state in

writing any grounds upon which he relied to exculpate himself,

5. Your petitioner thereupon wrote to the Colonial Secretary

of the Colony a letter of which a copy is hereunto annaxed.

6. The statements contained in the said letter are true and

correct in every detail.

7. Your petitioner subsequently appeared before a Committee

of the Executive Council, and was examined concerning the sald

allegations, and your petitioner then and there confirmed the

statements made by him in the said latter of which a copy is

hereunto annexed.

8. The man John Tatam referred to in the said letter, and

upon whose initiative the said proceedings were instituted, diâ

not appear before the Committee of the Executive Council upon

the said occasion, nor did he appear before the said Committee

upon a subsequent occasion when required so to uo by the said

Committee in accordance with a request of your petitioner.

9. The examination of your petitioner by the Bid Committee

was confined to the said charges made against your petitioner of having connected himself with the said commercial undertaking

over fourteen years ago.

10.

On the 24th November 1909 your petitioner was informed by

the Colonial Secretary that His Excellency the Governor in