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combined action between the Governments of China, Hongkong and Macro- suggested by your Froship, and long since advocated by myself - be carried out the provisions
Can now
capable
you may
of the local Ordinance are I great improvement, such rely on my not losing sight of so important a branch of the subject.
11. As for bringing regulations
the
export of arms, I am of opinion that we can eventually do without them. Such regulations to be effectual would interfere greatly with the commerce of the Port and would not be adopted by the Macao authorities as I understand from the Governor there. I therefore see no other effectual plan than to continue the present system of energetic action till such time as Piracy becomes so infrequent as to justify a joint declaration by all Governments concerned that every Asiatic vessel not belonging to, or chartered by, one of the above Governments shall, if carrying arms, be liable to capture as a Pirate.
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All equipping and confederating with Pirates have now been made