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special advantages which his position, Registrar General, affords him of
as
hourly details of
receiving daily and hourly
the feelings of the Chinese in all that
affecto
their interests, entitles his evidence
to the greatest weight. I now inclose a repeat from him on that bubject dispersing Salerne 12
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of the absurdity and inaccuracy of the statements about the Chinese so repeatedly
advanced without due
regard to their
hruthfulness.
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There
is no one
in the bolony
whose means of acquiring information to the Chinese, or whose scrupulous
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Jacanacy in sifting and "information Your Grace
implicitly than
ow
on
as
reporting that
can
more
rely "M" 6. Smith! Therefore
Enclosure No 2.
in the event of any discusion hereafter on the enclosed petition I feel
arising
that Your Grace may
without hesitation.
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authorize the most unqualified contradiction being given to any apertion of the existence
of any peculiar alarm on the subject amongst the Chinese Community.
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Moreover
the latter, hom the peculiarity of their
own murcantile transactions "inter se, is
f
lep affected than other residents by the operation of the Stamp Ordinance. 10. In reference to the apertion of that
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Ordinance imperilling the "Commucial excistence of the bolony "I
may
observe
that such exaggerated hyperbole could not possibly have much weight here. As however it is intended to produce
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