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the
for de is formation of this Excellency, that the Superintendent of Customs affirming the right of the Chinese Government
to make such provision for the prevention of smuggling and the payment of duties
erfect
avored by its subjects juran repudivit, nevertheless.
of this lung the front
willing to restore to the
cargo
and The
ao
by
to it may
in consideration
of the Kind
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pruckmaster the
$424.00, which amount was
of the
paid by them
for after the seizure took place,
ao a
when from the
Junk
and her
cargo
were released and handed back to them. The
above
I shall be prepared to pay
their
to the proper recipients
here
franceling shonaches have with a certificate
of their identity from yourself.
I also observe that I
have grounds for questioning the assertion of the Superintendent of Customs, as the Treaty of Peking refers only to British-owned goods and vessels; and when once the former pass into the hands of Chinese subjects,
are shipped in vessels belonging to the latter for
conveyance, they (beyond the jurisdiction of the waters of the Colony of Hong Kong), become solely and wholly amenable to Chinese law and regulation,
and no
colonial license which authorizes a Chinese
vessel to carry
under the
a number for harbor purposes
Junk
Ordinance, can
give such vessel a right to British protection
or
an appeal from the acts of the Imperial
oy