CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 258

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acquires the functionaries of ther Majesty, Government to Greise their Cuthority with Gentlemanly

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demeanour

becoming

I have

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! Signeet) W. J.

Marce, Molonial Secutary

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Colonial Secretary

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Copy.

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United Staty Consulate,

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in ansiver

you inform

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Hong Kong, Saly 16th 1866.

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letter of yestuctay

to mine of the 8th instant,

me that I have astrect

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British Colony, temporarily to abrogah

British Lave,

and to suspend

a

jinisdiction which it, is his ducky to

Inaintain intact," and further, that it is impossible for his Excellency to diverge from the

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Comse which his directions

declare to him "I fear that I have not expressed my self

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