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by the Post Master at Hong Kong of the extant circulated
Who requires that
rule, when sending to base statements respecting which it is obvious that
Who wanted
explanations are requisite from the local booth here of forwarding Copies of such statements through to the Governor seem to
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admit of the necessary explanations being sent home without the delay of a reference back to
The Colony
I have on
To the Right Honourable the Lords
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. My Lords
In the month of June last year, Petitioner was prosecuted upon
dam.
er
exofficer
"Corsair between
information by the Acting Attorney General of this Colony, and cast in damages to Her Majesty to the amount of Five Hundred Pounds, for having conveyed Letters for private individuals by his Steam this place and Canton to the great benefit
the
community, and the advantage of the Public
The principal Witnesses adduced at the time by the Crown was Mr Thomas Taylor, the Hoping Post officer, who Stated that to the best of his belief,
office had been established at Canton before his arrival in China, and that a
a Pet
Clark in the Consulate continued to take
Charge of it, it being nevertheless the fact, and one that can be clearly proved, that
no
were
arrangement existed except the temporary expedient resorted to before the creation of
Any
Colonial Post office at all, by which Letters entrusted to the Post Officer Received at the Consulate, and suffered to lie there till called for; moreover the
other mode of transmitting
Post Master had no
single letters except occasionally by the
"Corsair
by the line of Fact Boats