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the first step on this account, the extradition
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Jour. Thou caud. Dollars (B4000) in it
some one
It is brus. that the Police Bate was increased.
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to 10 per cent, to meet the Police Augmentation, but in the first place the sum thus reised could not suffice loen for the Police expenditure, and in the
second it was
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I have the honor to be
your obedient servant
Muurne
Colonial Secretary, be, of Hongthong.
forcibly, felt by the Council, that P. S. As I peresion that Sir John Bowring's
: as the Colony had no concern with the lover of
reasonable. to make
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is in original,
"return it herewith.
disturbance, it was not,
not just that on the to long should. Depotch inclverden fall the
heavy, to right of the sinbooked, for expenditur. and that it was perfectly rease application to A. M. Treasury for pecuniary kid, Mace expecially as it was in the pores of St. The Grot to enfores repayment of the seems thus adorned, by the real authors of the calamitis & losses, the turbulent inhabitants of the Procugtung. Perince.
eneral.
it will
The moral quetion of the propriety & supporting the Colony of Hong Kong by Parliamentary Grant, probably be considered presumptuous in me herste discuss, but I trust. I thall. to pardoned if I recall to remembrace the following paragraph in the Report of the House of Commons Committic of 1847 .
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nor to too think it
right
that the burden of Maintaining
that which is rather & poût for the general influence & the protection of the general trade in the China Seas; then &
Colony in the Holenary, decese, should be thrown in sexy gran
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the merchants or other,
persons who
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resident on it " If this opinion to correct under ordinary, carcumstances how much more to right must it heav at the present time.