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The important matter
with regard to this Colony
which the Colonial office seem
"
never to have had
properle.
reported to them is that
a
"
considerable proportion
of the expences incident on Keeping it
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arites
not from Colonial Causes "but from the Imperial
"trade with China and the
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"Consular Establishments there.
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"the Colory, if properly
amaged, is perfectly expable
meeting its own
expences,
but then it is entitled
to
call upon the Imperial
Government
"
a
cartribution
Government for towards defraying the expences
"
arising from extra Colonial,
and
made
sources
this clain should be
upor
Parliament, not
" for the Colony of Honghong " but for the Imperial Trade " with "China which in the " articles of tex, opium, and " silk, is "the Stove Exchequer
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so
beneficial to
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to lie
a
"well able to afford " contribution. I will particularis
"
sove
of the items in
" which the Colary has to pay for the Senperial Trade.
there had been a certain
amount