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haves with fivets all the suscontented, and bad spirits of the Impure, the island
uit be surrounded by
by Traveens, and
Besonne
... Coheuna of the waters. Three-
Vixis how de mpletly fulfisted this frisdiction and meither line.
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sircumstances will now ever alter
the obeander of the place
Chinese)
bring.
Colony.
the humbler class will even
their wives, and children to the
Me must be
who
Buer
a sanguine visionary expects that Hong Kong will Contain a numerous and respectable Chinese Population. And as regarde the present inhabitants fifer migating rowe- who are constantly changing)
deserve that epithet, then dinnuation by one half would be satisfering for
station swight
then
a controul by regis
be exercised, and life, and,
· perperty.
The
be revidered in some stegree secure-
daring
character of the population, and-
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As southlessness, for all useful civit proposes in the formation of a biliny
will be seen in the following incident.
On the 27th September 1843 The Mentle
Mayor Qaxine the chief Magistrate issued a proclamation - for pulling down some Mat sheds which harbored a gang of ruffians who were nightly engaged
au plundering the Sonn-. In the beginning of Oct 1843. the chinese Robbers posted a counter proclamation the gate of hot tarket place, in the stref through fare declaring
if they left the Island themselves they
would compel others to do so, laking... with them their Merchandise and
property, and-warning
and-warning people to be cautions how they dark lest they
ventured out after
meet with some
unexpected harm". At the same
time the Government Coal. Depôts
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