beyond it's jurisdiction to create costly Light houses which though useful are not necessary, and whose erection is suggested rather
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the ground of the good example which would thereby be afforded to the Chinese Government. I regret this greatly and would regret it still more, if I did not feel assured that Her Majesty's
Government will
assume
readily any really essential duties, which, though not devolving necessarily
on this Colony, may nevertheless partake somewhat of a general Imperial Character.
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5. With your Lordship's sanction I am quite prepared to propose to the Legislative Council the erection from Colonial fund of a suitable Beacon on the Pottinger Rock. Such Beacon may fairly be considered to come within the duties of the Colony, and its expense would probably not be very great. but I do not think any case is made out for throwing on the Colony either the cost of erecting Light houses or on the what is called "Colonial shipping" the burden of Light dues, in the absence
of any
absolute necessity for
such expenditure caused by the
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