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are excluded,
be used as wood by
Good by man though necessarily weed in the
used declaratory part of the Document.
This
was
specially
done to
1. protect the Rice and Grain Trade
个
the host and the Harbor factor
: with whom deals the
instructed accordingly
Carrying out
the
provisions of the Proclamation
With the recent seizure of
Saltpetre to which
reference is
made you
Excellency
sees
no
reason
for the attempt to export
for interfering,
was
made after full exposition of the
law had been
given
in
Government Gazette, and
allude to a
Case.
the
if
you
in which
Chinese were interested, I am
to remark that one
Care
was
taken to have the prohibition of these exports fully set forth in the Chinese transcript of
Government Gazette.
The fact of
the
of these prohibited
articles being shipped from British ports
is
one
over which
the Government of this Colony
has
no
Control,
nor does His
Excellency the acting Governor feel justified in discussing the policy of Her Majesty's Government
respect of the Proclamation is in question.
His Excellency however is at