[The writer] presents w Memorial requesting the issue of a Decree. He would humbly recal the fact that in the 6th moon of the 13th your of the reign 'I'ung Chi, 1875), the British of Foreign Affatn, fu nocordance with residing in' Peking pro}
precedent, to s duly sealed, wuder which an off jon from India ight enter Yunnan by way of Burmah, the Interpreter Margary might be rent to mest it; also to write letters informing the provincial Governments slong the line aa well aa to the Governor-General and Governor of Yunnan, Tt was in course of time stated by the British Minister that, in the 12th moon of the same year (January 1875), the Interpreter Margary had' reached Bhamo having there the rest of he party sent from Iudis, was returning through' the Ytinnan country, when on the 17th of the Ist moon of the Ist year of 1875), he, the Interpreter Margary, was murdered' at Man-wyne, a place which had reached in the diction of Mom On the 18th day (22nd February), Volonel Browne and the rest were attacked and driven back by an armed force.
In the 6th moon of the same year, Your despatched Li Han-chang, Gover-lof Hu Kui quiry and ako acti resident Siak thal they might be' present at the inv gation, In the 3rd moon of the 2ud year (March 1876), Li Han-chang and his colleague, having completed their inquiry, reported to the effect that the murder of the Inter-proter Margary was the nct of savages, who had demanded black mail of him that he had refused to pay it, and bad boon killed by them consequence, and that it was at the instigation of Li Chén-kuo, the military officer ((u-ss%, major?) liers had been stopped. The one affecting foreign relations, they (the Commissioners,) did not think it well to take on themselves to award a Your Majesties sung-li Yamen: to confer with the Board of Punishments report their joint having been pleased to signify apr reverently ented by of this course, a copy of the Decree, di the Taung-li Yamen to the British Minister, to whom were also forwarded copies of the memorial of Li Han-chang and h gue, with copies of depositionsand letter And whereas the depositions of Li Chén-kuo, uow cashiered, and the other pri uppiled adequate (or trustworthy) t them, the proper cours to the laws of China, th uld be found
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