not be maintained in the latter through want of funds. I would not therefore propose its maintenance except as part of a system for Suppression of piracy which the Junk ordinance is essential - as also for prevention of
for
the
Revenue can be inserted -
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whilst
unless becomes
the Harbor and Coasts Ordinance
allows the increased cost of the Harbor Master's Department (to be defrayed however by fees under the ordinance) need not appear
on the Estimates
I have directed a few of the
equipment of Pirates not carried
16.
ments of
on in Hong Kong -
an ent, which the
present Superintendent of Police and
of the
Prefe
In
the proposed
taxation and the financial condition
his staff
are
utterly impotent to cope
with
15.
There will consequently be
considerable delay in transmitting the
as the Stamp
Estimates for next year Act - which for pendential I have held back - must be passed before all the items of expenditure on
Colony to be appended to my speech transmitted herewith. They
do not evince
my
hostility to
any
proposal - and at present I think the majority of meeting the Crisis in some
such manner
suggestive seems
as that which I have
generally admitted - but I have no doubt great diversity
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