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jurisdiction establishing Custom "Houses," showing that he considered
the proposed
Vice Roy's Proclamation.
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measure
of
the Vice Roy.
of
In pointing out the nature of the error into which the Governor has
in the
to be intended to protect the revenues of
the Province from the frauds of "Chinese subjects sailing under the Chinese Flag." It does not appear that Mr Consul Robertson communicated to the Governor of Hongkong the purport of the Vice Roy's despatch of February 28., and evidently from
evidently from the want
of Governor of HongKong has misapprehended the purport of Sir Rutherford Alcock's despatch, as well as the true scope of the Vice Roy?
some such communication the
of HongKong
fallen
absence of more complete information
than he seems to have been
furnished with, I am desired by your Lord Stanley to request that you will call the Duke of Buckingham's
Earl of, attention to the fact that, in the
the Colonial Secretary.
Letter
of
of HongKong of July 10., acknowledging Mr Consul Robertson's despatch of July 6, no request is made for any farther information, and the observations of the Secretary.