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thus enhanced, the
peculiar position of thie. Colony is unfavorable, to extending it's sources of Revenue, for it world
be inconsistent with ttre objects for which
it was
founded to
impose any
burthens
on shipping and trado
Actuated probably
by
this Consideration, and
by the important rational purposes for
which this settlement
twas created Parliament loas
has foreverly extended
very
F
very
liberal aid lö
Hong Kong. By the Anne and
Schedule it will be seen
that in 1845 it allotted
£49000 to this Colony,
and that the whole
Amounts grew in that and the 10 following
was no less than years ₤231.800, hit that in
1856 the Grant was
discontinued,
tinued, in the
hope doubtless that the
Colony world be able
defray
to de
it's oven
expenditures. In 1857 havever thre Paverna
was obliged to ask, and
oblained