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of the Proclamation issued on the 28th February.
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A vessel arrived from Singapore with gunpowder on board, and it's export prohibited, she found hence being no sale except for a small portion which was exported under permit on Certificate of sale to the Imperial Government of China. I thereupon caused a
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Communication to be made to the Government of the Straits Settlements (inclosed), but have as yet received no reply.
I observe that a like prohibition was contemplated by the Law Officers of the Crown in their Opinion of 9th December 1862, enclosed in your Brace's despatch above quoted. Information has also reached me of several vessels expected from Calcutta with Saltpetre or other Military Stores on board. On arrival here these articles will be unsaleable, and there will, if gunpowder be among them, be difficulty in storing them, and danger to be feared from them when stored within the City, for the Military Magazine is full and unable to receive them.
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To prevent further inconvenience and loss from such shipments I have addressed the Bengal Government in a letter similar to that sent to