in conducting mining operations heretofore, in
in the Mountain region of Hainan, units of reality have always been employed and that as such thing as the Export of labourers from without has never been practised. The rule is that
with the mine are worked
for
under official superintendence or by contractors upon trial but in all cases only a few months at a time never being such a
thing
as
period of
contract for two years
It is feared that the British subjects referred to must have
been ... & their proceedings actuated by dividing them, concussing the local authorities and getting ... to approve that possibly some opposition or trouble may
be aroused on
the
part of the natives, which would be a serious matter for the local officials & take lessons therefrom
British subject, having found out that profitable mine of copper ore exist in the mountains of the Ai'any ... district, it was necessary that the matter should be carefully discovered, that it should be ascertained that no obstacle exists on any side, and then only should the Imperial authority for undertaking have been applied for: but they should not be carried away
by the representations.
the
opposition dry-law, and suffer
...