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have
never
provoted amongst them the
opposition which it was
means
sought to create.
of the willing
and
On the contrary by obedience of the Chinese, the respectable hortion of whom have found under those Ordinances increased security protection, they have become the most succesful experiments in Regislation yet attempted in the bolony.
7. In reference to the Stamp Ordinance
similar misrepresentations
were made to
awaken the suspicions of the Chinese
Community
com
the
one
hand and to
imprefs the Foreign community
on the
other by the risk which such Legislation produced of their Chinese customers elsewhere. I have repeatedly directed the
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truth of these statements to be investigated.
I have called
on known authors of
them to produce their proofs; but, although
invariably there was no
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credible justification forthcoming of the alarm and depression so unhesitatingly
affirmed to exist, there has
never ceased
to be a repetition of the same misstatements, and linally they
mow
crop up again
in
petition intended for presentation to
a
Parliament.
acquiring information
8. In
subjects
affecting the Chinese Inativally made of Met becil be. Smith, the
much
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present Acting loolonial Secretary, whose knowledge of the Chinese, and of their language, combined with the direct and