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Hongkong and the mainland.
But it appears to Lord Granville to deserve the consideration of Lord Clarendon and the Board of Trade (to whom copies also of these despatches have been sent) whether it would be possible to establish such practical regulations in Hongkong and China, in accordance with Treaty stipulations, as shall place the intercourse between Hongkong and its neighbouring country on a definite and regular footing, so as to protect the Chinese Revenue without unreasonably obstructing the ordinary daily traffic between the Colony and the mainland, and in doing so to remove occasions of controversy between the different British authorities.
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