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England, your petitioner received a notice that His Excellency the Governor had directad proanodings 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 lat October 1895 to the "month of April 1897, and on ------ *subsequent dates", engaged in trade and connected himself with the commercial undertaking known as "the longtong Butohery" in Hongkong; and your petitioner was callud 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 in hareunte aumɛxod.
5. The statemente contained in the mid lotter are truo and
correct in ovory detail.
7. Your petitioner subsequently appeared before a Committee of the Exequtive Comcil, and as ined concurning the said allegations, and your petitioner thon and there confirmed the stat mamta mada by him in the suid lotter of which a copy im hereimto annexod.
8. The ran John gatau referred to in the mid lotter, and upon whose initiative the said proccodings were instituted, did not appear before the Comitbeo of the Executive Council upen the suid occasion, nor did he appear before the said Committee upon a subaequent occasion when required ao to do by the sald Committee in accordance with a request of your petitioner.
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The examination of your petitioner by the said Committee was confined to the said olurges made against your petitioner
of having connected himself with the mid commercial undertaking ovar fourtesa yeare Lgo.
On the 24th November 1902 your petitioner was informed by the Colonial Secretary that His Excellency the Governor in
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