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or of imposing risk later on times
About the effect of what has been done
It works and has respect for the government.
At the same time the offer of
In order to facilitate a measure
And to Establish
In the repression
of a naval Force against Pirates
will involve immediate Expense.
for the Mint &
Expenditure on Junks, not to the advantage of the four
should think that
in refusing
this payment
of $20,000
in 1863-4
the past decision might be sustained by saying that for the present the
sum spent in Establishing and (for some subsequent years Maintaining) the Mint.
Apr.
the morning
maintaining a Force in
split in
Gunboats ($4,771 against boats)
in diminution of the military
contribution
Also the sum spent in preparing Ground for their manoeuvring might be $499.
to be reckoned
in Bank of Hongkong with Enclosures.
Since these Papers have come
into
my hands, I have had conversations both with Sir Hercules Robinson
Chief Justice Adams
on the subject of the Military requirements of Hongkong. They both maintained, as the Governor did in his letter, that the English Colony at Hong Kong requires no troops for
protection, and both deprecated the course taken by the acting
Mercer,