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following should the proposed ordinaner boome laws
An American Vessel -
(the Flag
most largely engaged in the Chinest Passenger & hade) has shipped a lading of emigrants either under contract
a
or entirely free at or Post s
outside HongKong - to have
an
Agent,
The happens
Owner or
Charterer residing or carrying " on business" at the time within this Colony and which under present circumstances must almost be inevitably
the case. That residenor
be
may
marly cesival and towponsay
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swany
us is the case of
case of Go
American and other Firms
who are
their
carrying
OM/
busings here for the present
as mere
refugees under the
existing crisis at Canton .
The
sed Ordinance
proposed
would make this accidental
Connexion the basis
of
the
most formidable penal s liabilities bath of person and
on their part,
property
rendering
а
ship of theirs whose keel had never touched our waters, liable to seizure
British Cruizer and
by
rem
forfiture to the Butish Brown,