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what quantity it is, in a
in a perfectly free port like Stoughong, impossible
to ascertain.
3.
On the 16th Justant the
Executive Council was assembled
by
me
as
required by Ordinance
1.3 171862, and the enclosed Proclamation
will
appear in tomorrows Gazette
in accordance with
directions.
4.
your
Grace's
I need not assure your Grace that the prohibition shall for as the Harbou enforce it, but it
be enforced
trarter can
as
seems to me to rest mainly with the Chinese Governments to prevent there Stores passing into
5.
Come
meurgent hands.
The articles themselves from America, Germany, and England, and are not manufactured in Strugtong, though doubtless
their nominal sale
may
be
effected here, as it will be in Inacas or along the Coast when the present Proclamation shall be in operation
6.
On two or
three occasions
lately (the last within the current mouth) Chinese Officers deputed by the Turntai of Shaughne
Ihave come down here to purchase arms and warlike Stores, and on one occasion these men were
found doing business in
: