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be for the Committer, were
were the
land Revenue and the Opeium
Farm, and there would seem
fune
th
Report
which has
been published, to have been
an inpression among that Hong Kong stood
the Committer
the
footing rather of an Infinial
a
Colonial Establishment
and that the Merchants settled there, had therefore a lacin to look to the Superial Lear
sary for bearing
the
Ame
assistame in
expenses of the
beal Govenment. Upon what grounds this
this
impression rested
it would be impossible to
without he
Lay
evidence
of any
having
read the
but. Iam not aware
aircumstances connected
with Hong Kong, which might
not be predicated with equal buth of several other Butish Colones. The essential question
I presume to be, whether Any
Kong
Cau
bear the Taxation
necessary to provide for its
expenditure without such a poss
in
its Trade,
ax
k
bo destroy in
swe
great measures the usefulness
the Settlement.
of the
When Hong Kong
first