The 28 Feb 1863
27 that the Government of Hongkong should be authorized to prohibit the exportation of Warlike stores "of any kind" to districts "either in possession or accessible to the insurgents, or generally to the Ports of China except under licence" "conditioned with a view to prevent them from being disposed of to the Insurgents."
To this proposal the Duke of Somerset replied that he would assent if it were thought possible to give effect to such a proclamation without resorting to any measures of enforcement such as would injure the commerce of Hongkong, due to the strength of an opinion then prevailing.
The Governor of Hongkong, acting on a dispatch dated the 4 March 1863, suggested that he should be allowed to issue permits under certain conditions. This dispatch (received April 1863) was sent to the Foreign Office, and in May, the Law Officers approved of the Proclamation and respecting permits being issued.
The Proclamation was issued in accordance with Ordinance 3 of 1862. On the 22 May 1863, Dent & Co. and others made their first appeal, stating that large shipments of Arms made in December 1862 and February 1863, before the issue of the proclamation on the 28th of that month, had now no sale for them.
This appeal was sent to the Foreign Office.
On the 26 June 1863 (before noticing the above letter), in consequence of reports from Japan, Earl Russell requested that the Acting Governor of Hongkong might be authorized to prohibit the exportation of Warlike Stores to Japan.
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To this proposal the duke of Rewearth replied that he would assent if it were thought possible to give effect to such aproclamation without resorting to any measures of Enforcement
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