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(Copy.) Hongkong. No. 284. SIR,
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Secretary of State to Governor, Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G.
DOWNING STREET,
29th December, 1883.
I have received and have read with attention and interest your despatch, No. 189, of the 15th August, forwarding a Report by Mr. Justice RUSSELL on the system of Child Adoption and domestic service as it exists in Hongkong.
2. I approve of the course which you propose to take, and I concur with you in your appreciation of the value of Mr. RUSSELL'S labours in preparing this clear and able review of this question, and I have to request you to express to him my sense of the care and attention which he has devoted to the subject.
3. I observe with satisfaction the good which has resulted from the measures already taken to check the evils incidentally connected with this system, and the further safeguards which Mr. RUSSELL suggests may, I think, be wisely adopted.
Governor Sir G. F. BOWEN, G.C.M.G.,
&C.
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I have, &c., (Signed)
DERBY.
No. 161.
SIR,
Colonial Secretary to Mr. Justice Russell.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 16th February, 1884.
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to transmit to you, for your information, the annexed copy of a despatch received by the last mail from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies relative to your report on the system of Child adoption and Domestic Service in this Colony.
I have, &c.,
(Signed)
His Honour Mr. Justice RusSELL,
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&c.,
&e.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Pro. Colonial Secretary.
(C.O.Desp. 24).
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Same as No. 7 to the Registrar General.
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Extract from Minutes of the Executive Council.
19th March, 1884.
The Council advise that these papers should be referred to the Registrar General, and that he should place himself in communication with the Attorney General with a view to drawing up a Bill embodying the recommendations contained in Mr. RUSSELL'S Report.
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(Signed)
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Clerk of Councils.
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